models/official/modeling/activations/gelu.py

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"""Gaussian error linear unit."""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

import math

import tensorflow as tf


@tf.keras.utils.register_keras_serializable(package='Text')
def gelu(x):
  """Gaussian Error Linear Unit.

  This is a smoother version of the RELU.
  Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08415
  Args:
    x: float Tensor to perform activation.

  Returns:
    `x` with the GELU activation applied.
  """
  cdf = 0.5 * (1.0 + tf.tanh(
      (math.sqrt(2 / math.pi) * (x + 0.044715 * tf.pow(x, 3)))))
  return x * cdf