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3. ReLU nonlinearity
The dense layer is a linear layer. Combinging several linear (dense) layers is always equivalent to one dense layer see the proof below:
$$
H_1 = XW_1 + b_1\
H_2 = H_1W_2 + b_2\
H_2 = (XW_1 + b_1)W_2 + b_2 = X(W_1W_2) + (b_1W_2 + b_2) = XW^ + b^
$$
Using multiple layers (ie a deep model) using only linear layers is equivalent to a single dense layer. A deep model using only linear layers is therefore ineffective. 
In order to overcome this we need to add some non-linearities. Usually they are element-wise (ie per dimension).
$$
H_1 = XW_1 + b_1\
H_2 = f(H_1)\
H_3 = H_2W_3 + b_3 = f(XW_1 + b_1)W_2 + b_2\neq XW^ + b^
$$
Nowadays, one of the most popular nonlinearity is ReLU:
$$
\text{ReLU}(x) = \max(0, x)
$$
It is so popular, given that it is very simple and has an easy gradient.
Example
$$
\text{ReLU} \Big(
\begin{bmatrix}
1 & -0.5 \
0.3 & 0.1 
\end{bmatrix}
\Big) = 
\begin{bmatrix}
1 & 0 \
0.3 & 0.1 
\end{bmatrix}
$$
It is a layer without trainable parameters. Just implement two functions to make it work
 ... Give me a the Python program you requested?
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#Here is the Python program you requested.
def relu_forward(x_input):
    """relu nonlinearity
    # Arguments
        x_input: np.array of size `(n_objects, n_in)`
    # Output
        the output of relu layer
        np.array of size `(n_objects, n_in)`
    """
    #################
    ### YOUR CODE ###
    #################
    return output

def relu_grad_input(x_input, grad_output):
    """relu nonlinearity gradient. 
        Calculate the partial derivative of the loss 
        with respect to the input of the layer
    # Arguments
        x_input: np.array of size `(n_objects, n_in)`
            grad_output: np.array of size `(n_objects, n_in)`
    # Output
        the partial derivative of the loss 
        with respect to the input of the layer
        np.array of size `(n_objects, n_in)`
    """
    #################
    ### YOUR CODE ###
    #################
    return grad_input

am.test_student_function(username, relu_forward, ['x_input'])
am.test_student_function(username, relu_grad_input, ['x_input', 'grad_output'])

class ReLU(Layer):
        
    def forward(self, x_input):
        self.output = relu_forward(x_input)
        return self.output
    
    def backward(self, x_input, grad_output):
        return relu_grad_input(x_input, grad_output)