Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

9 Artificial neural networks

This chapter covers

• Understanding the inspiration and intuition of artificial neural networks

• Identifying problems that can be solved with artificial neural networks

• Understanding and implementing forward propagation using a trained network

• Understanding and implementing backpropagation to train a network

• Designing artificial neural network architectures to tackle different problems

What are artificial neural networks?

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are powerful tools in the machine learning toolkit, used in a variety of ways to accomplish objectives such as image recognition, natural language processing, and game playing. ANNs learn in a similar way to other machine learning algorithms: by using ...