Hands-On Transfer Learning with Python

Backprop – training deep neural networks

For training deep multilayered neural networks, we can still use the gradient decent/SGD. But, SGD will require computing the derivatives of the loss function with regards to all the weights of the network. We have seen how to apply the chain rule of derivatives to compute the derivative for the logistic unit.

Now, for a deeper network, we can recursively apply the same chain rule layer by layer to obtain the derivative of the loss function with regards to the weights corresponding to layers at different depths in the network. This is called the backpropagation algorithm.

Backpropagation was invented in the 1970s as a general optimization method for performing automatic differentiation of complex ...