Practical Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning, Bots, and Agent Solutions Using C#

© Arnaldo Pérez Castaño 2018

Arnaldo Pérez CastañoPractical Artificial Intelligencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3357-3_12

12. Handwritten Digit Recognition

Arnaldo Pérez Castaño¹ 

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Havana, Cuba

 

In Chapter 11 we studied artificial neural networks (NNs) , a supervised learning paradigm that mimics the way neurons in our brain work. The learning process in NNs consists of approximating a function described in a tabular manner via a training data set containing features of objects (inputs to the function to be approximated) and their corresponding classification (outputs of the function).

As described before, NNs are capable of learning a function described in a training data set by adjusting the set of weights linking their neurons. At the ...