@manuascript {667984,
	title = {A New Artificial Neuron Proposal with Trainable Simultaneous Local and Global Activation Function},
	year = {2021},
	abstract = {The activation function plays a fundamental role in the artificial neural net-work learning process. However, there is no obvious choice or procedure todetermine the best activation function, which depends on the problem. Thisstudy proposes a new artificial neuron, named Global-Local Neuron, with atrainable activation function composed of two components, a global and alocal. The global component term used here is relative to a mathematicalfunction to describe a general feature present in all problem domains. Thelocal component is a function that can represent a localized behavior, like atransient or a perturbation. This new neuron can define the importance ofeach activation function component in the learning phase. Depending on theproblem, it results in a purely global, or purely local, or a mixed global and local activation function after the training phase. Here, the trigonometric sinefunction was employed for the global component and the hyperbolic tangentfor the local component. The proposed neuron was tested for problems wherethe target was a purely global function, or purely local function, or a com-position of two global and local functions. Two classes of test problems wereinvestigated, regression problems and differential equations solving. The experimental tests demonstrated the Global-Local Neuron network{\textquoteright}s superiorperformance, compared with simple neural networks with sine or hyperbolictangent activation function, and with a hybrid network that combines thesetwo simple neural networks.},
	author = {Tiago A. E. Ferreira and Marios Mattheakis and Pavlos Protopapas}
}
