delving

Definition

Investigating something in depth rather than surveying it. The classic occurrence is "Delving Deep into Rectifiers", the paper that introduced PReLU together with a matching initialisation scheme, where the title signals a close re-examination of a component everyone thought was settled. The word has since acquired a second life as a marker of LLM-generated prose — a fact about style, not about the papers that used it earlier.

Explainers using this term

• Activation Functions from Scratch — Why Nonlinearity Is Non-NegotiableDelving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification