First-order derivatives: n additional function calls are needed. Second-order derivatives based on gradient calls, when the "grd" module is specified (Dennis and Schnabel 1983): n additional gradient ...

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Abstract: The sigmoid function is a representative activation function in shallow neural networks. Its hardware realization is challenging due to the complex exponential and reciprocal operations.