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Concepts(2)

Plain-language explanations of technical ideas.

Activation Functions

The non-linear functions applied after each layer that give neural networks the ability to learn complex patterns.

Deep LearningNeural NetworksArchitecture

Backpropagation

The algorithm that calculates how much each weight in a network contributed to the error, making gradient descent possible at scale.

Deep LearningTrainingNeural Networks