Deep learning· 2010
Rectified Linear Units Improve Restricted Boltzmann Machines
On the reading lists
- #307 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #36 in Deep learning (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Demonstrated advantages of rectified units, helping establish ReLU as a standard activation.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2010 (from OpenAlex)
- Citations
- 19,244 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.439 · computed rank 307 · consensus 0.54, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.791 (2010s · deep-learning), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.