Body: <p>In which types of learning tasks are linear units more useful than sigmoid activation functions in the output layer of a multi-layer neural network?</p>
  
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Title: When should I use a linear unit instead of sigmoid in the output layer?
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ThreadText: # When should I use a linear unit instead of sigmoid in the output layer?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-12-31)
  
  In which types of learning tasks are linear units more useful than sigmoid activation functions in the output layer of a multi-layer neural network?
  
  **Tags:** machine-learning, deep-learning, comparison, activation-functions, sigmoid
  
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