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Multi-layer Perceptron

The Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) is a feedforward neural network architecture trained by backpropagation, formalised by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams in their landmark 1986 Nature paper. Composed of an input layer, one or more hidden layers of neurons with nonlinear activation functions, and an output layer, the MLP can approximate any continuous function to arbitrary accuracy and serves as the conceptual bridge between classical machine learning and modern deep learning.

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Multi-layer Perceptron (Feedforward Neural Network with Backpropagation)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / machine-learning
  • Rumelhart, D. E., Hinton, G. E., & Williams, R. J. (1986). Learning representations by back-propagating errors. Nature, 323, 533–536. · DOI 10.1038/323533a0
  • Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., & Courville, A. (2016). Deep Learning (Ch. 6–7). MIT Press. · ISBN 978-0-262-03561-3
  • Bishop, C. M. (2006). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Ch. 5). Springer. · ISBN 978-0-387-31073-2
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See alsoLogistic Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRandom Forestmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRecurrent Neural Networkmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyXGBoostmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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