© Nikhil Ketkar 2017
Nikhil Ketkar, Deep Learning with Python, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2766-4_3
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
which takes an input 
and produces an output , and whose behavior is parameterized by So for instance, f
θ
could be simply ...
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