Create mlp_activation_comparison.py

machine_learning/mlp_activation_comparison.py

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+"""
+Compare MLP activation functions (ReLU, Sigmoid, Tanh) using sklearn.
+
+This script trains an MLPClassifier on the sklearn digits dataset
+with different activation functions and prints their accuracy scores.
+
+Example:
+    >>> # Run the script directly
+    >>> # python mlp_activation_comparison.py
+    Activation: relu, Accuracy: 0.9722
+    Activation: logistic, Accuracy: 0.9200
+    Activation: tanh, Accuracy: 0.9444
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+from sklearn.datasets import load_digits
+from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
+from sklearn.neural_network import MLPClassifier
+from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
+
+
+def compare_mlp_activations() -> None:
+    """
+    Train and evaluate MLPClassifier with ReLU, Sigmoid, and Tanh activations.
+
+    Prints the accuracy for each activation function.
+    """
+    digits = load_digits()
+    x_train, x_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
+        digits.data, digits.target, test_size=0.2, random_state=42
+    )
+
+    for activation in ["relu", "logistic", "tanh"]:
+        mlp = MLPClassifier(
+            hidden_layer_sizes=(50,),
+            activation=activation,
+            max_iter=500,
+            random_state=42,
+        )
+        mlp.fit(x_train, y_train)
+        y_pred = mlp.predict(x_test)
+        acc = accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred)
+        print(f"Activation: {activation}, Accuracy: {acc:.4f}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    compare_mlp_activations()