Machine learning
Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP)
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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- 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