# Activation function cnn

**URL:** <https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/activation-function-cnn/191664>\
**Category:** Convolutional Neural Networks\
**Tags:** coursera-platform\
**Created:** [August 23, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/activation-function-cnn/191664 "2022-08-23T21:24:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mohammad\_Hamza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mohammad\_Hamza](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Mohammad_Hamza)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/activation-function-cnn/191664/1 "2022-08-23T21:24:10Z")

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do we need to apply the activation function only on the convolutional and dense layer of we can also apply it after the pooling.??

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**Author:** ![alvaroramajo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/alvaroramajo/32/17572_2.png) [@alvaroramajo](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/alvaroramajo)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/activation-function-cnn/191664/2 "2022-08-23T22:41:51Z")

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Hi, @Mohammad_Hamza !

You can use activation functions wherever you want, it will make almost no difference.