Neural network activation function im fairly new to neural networks.
I want to ask what exactly does the activation output, is it the probability the combined summation of inputs and weights lead to a match for the next neuron?
Thanks
The goal of activation functions is to introduce non-linearity in the neural network, so it can learn beyond linear relations between input and outputs.
As stated in your image, each neuron output is a linear combination of inputs + a bias, and then all this is sent into a non-linear function (activation function). This allow the network to learn complex relations between input ans outputs.
Most used activation function is ReLU, which is not a probability as it can return a value greater than 1.