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Deep Learning with JavaScript
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Deep Learning with JavaScript

by Stanley Bileschi, Eric Nielsen, Shanqing Cai
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
22h 18m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 3. Adding nonlinearity: Beyond weighted sums

This chapter covers

  • What nonlinearity is and how nonlinearity in hidden layers of a neural network enhances the network’s capacity and leads to better prediction accuracies
  • What hyperparameters are and methods for tuning them
  • Binary classification through nonlinearity at the output layer, introduced with the phishing-website-detection example
  • Multiclass classification and how it differs from binary classification, introduced with the iris-flower example

In this chapter, you’ll build on the groundwork laid in chapter 2 to allow your neural networks to learn more complicated mappings, from features to labels. The primary enhancement we will introduce is nonlinearity—a mapping between input ...

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