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Nikhil Ketkar, Deep Learning with Python, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2766-4_3

3. Feed Forward Neural Networks

Nikhil Ketkar1 

(1)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

In this chapter we will cover some key concepts around Feed Forward neural networks. These concepts will serve as a foundation as we cover more technical topics in depth.

At an abstract level, a Neural Network can be thought of as a function

$$ {f}_{\theta }:x\to y $$ which takes an input $$ x\in {\mathrm{\mathbb{R}}}^n $$ and produces an output , and whose behavior is parameterized by So for instance, f θ could be simply ...

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