kindly explain in simple words why tanh is better than sigmoid function?

Course 1 : sigmoid vs tanh function

khirman August 21, 2021, 8:37pm 2

Mean of your data closer to 0 rather than 0.5 and make learning easy for next layer. kindly elaborate this point of instructor .

Is Tanh better than sigmoid?

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