# sigmoid

Apply sigmoid activation

## Description

The sigmoid activation operation applies the sigmoid function to the input data.

This operation is equivalent to

$f\left(x\right)=\frac{1}{1+{e}^{-x}}.$

Note

This function applies the sigmoid operation to dlarray data. If you want to apply sigmoid within a layerGraph object or Layer array, use the following layer:

example

Y = sigmoid(X) computes the sigmoid activation of the input X by applying the sigmoid transfer function. All values in Y are between 0 and 1.

## Examples

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Use the sigmoid function to set all values in the input data to a value between 0 and 1.

Create the input data as a single observation of random values with a height and width of seven and 32 channels.

height = 7;
width = 7;
channels = 32;
observations = 1;

X = randn(height,width,channels,observations);
X = dlarray(X,'SSCB');

Compute the sigmoid activation.

Y = sigmoid(X);

All values in Y now range between 0 and 1.

## Input Arguments

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Input data, specified as a formatted dlarray, an unformatted dlarray, or a numeric array.

Data Types: single | double

## Output Arguments

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Sigmoid activations, returned as a dlarray. All values in Y are between 0 and 1. The output Y has the same underlying data type as the input X.

If the input data X is a formatted dlarray, Y has the same dimension format as X. If the input data is not a formatted dlarray, Y is an unformatted dlarray with the same dimension order as the input data.

## Version History

Introduced in R2019b