Building Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platform: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

© Ekaba Bisong 2019

E. . BisongBuilding Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4470-8_31

31. The Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)

Ekaba Bisong¹ 

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The multilayer perceptron (MLP) is the fundamental example of a deep neural network. The architecture of a MLP consists of multiple hidden layers to capture more complex relationships that exist in the training dataset. Another name for the MLP is the deep feedforward neural network (DFN). An illustration of an MLP is shown in Figure 31-1.

Figure 31-1

Deep feedforward neural network

The Concept of Hierarchies

The more the number of ...