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Introduction to Neural Networks

  1. Understanding Neural Networks
  2. Current trends in the application of neural networks
  3. Comparing Neural Networks with regression models
  4. Supervised versus Unsupervised learning

Overview of Available Packages

  1. Packages such as nnet, neuralnet, and others
  2. Differences between packages and their limitations
  3. Visualizing neural networks

Applying Neural Networks

  • Concepts of neurons and neural networks
  • A simplified model of the brain
  • The neuron as a functional unit
  • The XOR problem and the nature of value distribution
  • The polymorphic nature of sigmoidal functions
  • Other activation functions
  • Construction of neural networks
  • Concept of neuron connectivity
  • Neural networks viewed as nodes
  • Building a network
  • Neurons
  • Layers
  • Scaling
  • Input and output data
  • Range from 0 to 1
  • Normalization
  • Training Neural Networks
  • Backpropagation
  • Propagation steps
  • Network training algorithms
  • Scope of application
  • Estimation
  • Challenges regarding approximation capability
  • Examples
  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and image pattern recognition
  • Other applications
  • Implementing a neural network model to predict stock prices of listed companies

Requirements

Programming experience in any language is recommended.

 14 Hours

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