Activation function

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Activation function

Quality:

Activation function - a function associated to a node in a computational network that defines the output of that node given an input or set of inputs. Article "Activation function" in English Wikipedia has 59.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hebrew Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article "Activation function" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Activation function", its content was written by 145 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 279 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 220 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1031 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #6422 in December 2021
  • Global: #14373 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #34504 in November 2017
  • Global: #54162 in June 2020

There are 21 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Hebrew (he)
פונקציית אקטיבציה
65.4616
2English (en)
Activation function
59.1297
3Ukrainian (uk)
Передавальна функція штучного нейрона
52.5765
4Galician (gl)
Función de activación
50.3388
5Serbian (sr)
Активациона функција
46.2788
6Italian (it)
Funzioni di attivazione
46.2476
7Turkish (tr)
Aktivasyon fonksiyonu
45.7422
8Chinese (zh)
激活函数
45.2941
9Persian (fa)
تابع فعالسازی
44.751
10Russian (ru)
Функция активации
43.1353
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Activation function" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Activation function
2 403 272
2Japanese (ja)
活性化関数
322 244
3Russian (ru)
Функция активации
244 357
4Polish (pl)
Funkcja aktywacji
149 752
5Chinese (zh)
激活函数
132 121
6French (fr)
Fonction d'activation
124 681
7Spanish (es)
Función de activación
76 046
8Ukrainian (uk)
Передавальна функція штучного нейрона
16 644
9Korean (ko)
활성화 함수
11 345
10Vietnamese (vi)
Hàm kích hoạt
3 482
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Activation function" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Activation function
10 912
2Russian (ru)
Функция активации
1 440
3French (fr)
Fonction d'activation
893
4Japanese (ja)
活性化関数
828
5Chinese (zh)
激活函数
626
6Polish (pl)
Funkcja aktywacji
531
7Korean (ko)
활성화 함수
236
8Spanish (es)
Función de activación
214
9Turkish (tr)
Aktivasyon fonksiyonu
168
10Ukrainian (uk)
Передавальна функція штучного нейрона
106
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Activation function" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Activation function
145
2French (fr)
Fonction d'activation
20
3Japanese (ja)
活性化関数
16
4Polish (pl)
Funkcja aktywacji
16
5Chinese (zh)
激活函数
16
6Ukrainian (uk)
Передавальна функція штучного нейрона
11
7Spanish (es)
Función de activación
10
8Korean (ko)
활성화 함수
7
9Hebrew (he)
פונקציית אקטיבציה
6
10Russian (ru)
Функция активации
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Activation function" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Activation function
4
2Italian (it)
Funzioni di attivazione
3
3French (fr)
Fonction d'activation
1
4Russian (ru)
Функция активации
1
5Arabic (ar)
تابع التفعيل
0
6Catalan (ca)
Funció d'activació
0
7Czech (cs)
Aktivační funkce
0
8Spanish (es)
Función de activación
0
9Persian (fa)
تابع فعالسازی
0
10Galician (gl)
Función de activación
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Activation function" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Activation function
220
2Russian (ru)
Функция активации
151
3Arabic (ar)
تابع التفعيل
119
4Ukrainian (uk)
Передавальна функція штучного нейрона
114
5Chinese (zh)
激活函数
103
6Hebrew (he)
פונקציית אקטיבציה
98
7Polish (pl)
Funkcja aktywacji
80
8French (fr)
Fonction d'activation
25
9Spanish (es)
Función de activación
21
10Japanese (ja)
活性化関数
21
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تابع التفعيل
caCatalan
Funció d'activació
csCzech
Aktivační funkce
enEnglish
Activation function
esSpanish
Función de activación
faPersian
تابع فعالسازی
frFrench
Fonction d'activation
glGalician
Función de activación
heHebrew
פונקציית אקטיבציה
itItalian
Funzioni di attivazione
jaJapanese
活性化関数
koKorean
활성화 함수
plPolish
Funkcja aktywacji
ruRussian
Функция активации
srSerbian
Активациона функција
thThai
ฟังก์ชันกระตุ้น
trTurkish
Aktivasyon fonksiyonu
ukUkrainian
Передавальна функція штучного нейрона
viVietnamese
Hàm kích hoạt
zhChinese
激活函数
zhminnanMin Nan
Kek-oa̍h hâm-sò͘

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#34504
11.2017
Global:
#54162
06.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6422
12.2021
Global:
#14373
10.2024

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Activation function from Wikipedia articles about Artificial neural network, Rectifier, Sigmoid function, Multilayer perceptron and Softmax function. Whereas reading the article about Activation function people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Rectifier, Logistic function, Softmax function, Universal approximation theorem and Sigmoid function.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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