diff --git a/src/activation.jl b/src/activation.jl
index 398fe0fe..37eddb8f 100644
--- a/src/activation.jl
+++ b/src/activation.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
-export σ
+export σ, relu, softmax
 
 σ(x) = 1 ./ (1 .+ exp.(-x))
 
 back!(::typeof(σ), Δ, x) = Δ .* σ(x)./(1.-σ(x))
+
+relu(x) = max(0, x)
+
+back(::typeof(relu), Δ, x) = Δ .* (x .< 0)
+
+softmax(x) = error("not implemented")
diff --git a/src/backend/mxnet/graph.jl b/src/backend/mxnet/graph.jl
index 832b4c86..57b3fc09 100644
--- a/src/backend/mxnet/graph.jl
+++ b/src/backend/mxnet/graph.jl
@@ -30,3 +30,5 @@ end
 node(::typeof(*), args...) = mx.dot(args...)
 node(::typeof(+), args...) = mx.broadcast_plus(args...)
 node(::typeof(σ), x) = mx.Activation(data = x, act_type = :sigmoid)
+node(::typeof(relu), x) = mx.Activation(data = x, act_type=:relu)
+node(::typeof(softmax), xs) = mx.broadcast_div(exp(xs), mx.Reshape(mx.sum(exp(xs)), shape = (1,1)))