Artificial
Neural
Network
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What is Artificial Neural
Network?
The term "Artificial neural network" refers to a biologically inspired sub-field of
artificial intelligence modeled after the brain
An Artificial neural network is usually a computational network based on
biological neural networks that construct the structure of the human brain
Like a human brain has neurons interconnected to each other, artificial neural
networks also have neurons that are linked to each other in various layers of the
networks
These neurons are known as nodes
What is Artificial Neural
Network?
The term "Artificial Neural Network" is derived from Biological
neural networks that develop the structure of a human brain
Similar to the human brain that has neurons interconnected
to one another, artificial neural networks also have neurons
that are interconnected to one another in various layers of the
networks
These neurons are known as nodes
Typical diagram of Biological
Neural Network
Artificial Neural Network
primarily consists of three layers:
Typical diagram of Artificial
Neural Network
Typical diagram of Artificial
Neural Network
Biological
Neural
Network
• Dendrites from
Biological Neural
Network represent
inputs in Artificial
Neural Networks, cell
nucleus represents
Nodes, synapse
represents Weights,
and Axon represents
Output
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ANN
• An Artificial Neural Network in the field of
Artificial intelligence where it attempts to
mimic the network of neurons makes up a
human brain
• Computers will have an option to understand
things and make decisions in a human-like
manner
• The artificial neural network is designed by
programming computers to behave simply like
interconnected brain cells
ANN
• There are around 1000 billion neurons in the human
brain
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• Each neuron has an association point somewhere in
the range of 1,000 and 100
• In the human brain, data is stored in such a manner
as to be distributed, and we can extract more than
one piece of this data when necessary from our
memory parallelly
• We can say that the human brain is made up of
incredibly amazing parallel processors
The
architecture
• Input Layer
• Hidden layer
• Output layer
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The architecture of an
artificial neural network
In order to define a neural network that consists of a large
number of artificial neurons, which are termed units arranged in
a sequence of layers
As the name suggests, it accepts inputs in
Input Layer several different formats provided by the
programmer
The hidden layer presents in-between input
Hidden Layer and output layers
The input goes through a series of
transformations using the hidden layer,
Output Layer which finally results in output that is
conveyed using this layer
The architecture of an
artificial neural network
The artificial neural network takes input and
computes the weighted sum of the inputs and
includes a bias
It determines weighted total is passed as an input
to an activation function to produce the output
Activation functions choose whether a node
should fire or not
Only those who are fired make it to the output
layer
There are distinctive activation functions available
that can be applied upon the sort of task we are
performing
