Hands-On Neural Network Programming with C#

Neural network training

Now that we know what a neural network and neurons are, we should talk about what they do and how they do it. How does a neural network learn? Those of you with children already know the answer to this one. If you want your child to learn what a cat is, what do you do? You show them cats (pictures or real). You want your child to learn what a dog is? Show them dogs. A neural network is conceptually no different. It has a form of learning rule that will modify the incoming weights from the input layer, process them through the hidden layers, put them through an activation function, and hopefully will be able to identify, in our case, cats and dogs. And, if done correctly, the cat does not become a dog!

One of the most ...