Backpropagation
The method networks use to work out the slope for every weight at once.
Learn it through a story
- Fog on Nandi Hills (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 2)
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Related terms
- Anomaly Something that doesn’t fit the usual pattern.
- Artificial neuron A tiny calculator that multiplies its inputs by weights, adds them, and decides.
- Attention The part of a transformer that lets each word look at the other words that matter for its meaning.
- Classifier An AI that sorts things into groups, like wet or dry.
- Clustering Putting similar things into groups.
- Confidence How sure a model says it is about an answer.