FAU Lecture Notes in Pattern Recognition

I am your Father, Deep Net — The Multi-Layer Perceptron

A short Introduction to the Multi-Layer Perceptron

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13 min readApr 8, 2021

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Welcome everybody to pattern recognition! Today we want to look into multi-layer perceptrons that are also called neural networks. We’ll give a brief sketch of the ideas of neural networks.

Image under CC BY 4.0 from the Pattern Recognition Lecture

Let’s have a look at multi-layer perceptrons. You see that we talked about this here only about very basic concepts. If you’re interested in neural networks we have an entire class on deep learning where we talk about all the details. Here we will…

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Andreas Maier
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I do research in Machine Learning. My positions include being Prof @FAU_Germany, President @DataDonors, and Board Member for Science & Technology @TimeMachineEU