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Neural Networks: Learning Parameters (Weights, Biases, and Backprop)

Last week we discussed how a neural network works in very simple terms.

  • (If you haven’t read it, you can find it here)

Today, we’re going to add on to that concept.

So how do neural networks actually learn?

When data is fed through a neural network, its weights and biases affect how the data influences the final output of the model.

  • The output of a neural network can vary for different cases. For instance, for classification problems, it may output a vector of probability values of each class.

But how are these weights and biases actually tweaked?

We use something called an error gradient.

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