Data classification with deep learning using Tensorflow

Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning which uses artificial neural networks that is inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Despite being a very new approach, it has become very popular recently. Deep learning has achieved much higher success in many applications where machine learning has been successful at certain rates. In particular It is preferred in the classification of big data sets because it can provide fast and efficient results. In this study, we used Tensorflow, one of the most popular deep learning libraries to classify MNIST dataset, which is frequently used in data analysis studies. Using Tensorflow, which is an open source artificial intelligence library developed by Google, we have studied and compared the effects of multiple activation functions on classification results. The functions used are Rectified Linear Unit (ReLu), Hyperbolic Tangent (tanH), Exponential Linear Unit (eLu), sigmoid, softplus and softsign. In this Study, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and SoftMax classifier are used as deep learning artificial neural network. The results show that the most accurate classification rate is obtained using the ReLu activation function.