Week 12: Perceptrons and multilayer nets

DATA 442/642 · Week 12

Module 6 — Perceptrons and multilayer nets

Notes

• 12.1 Neural Networks and the Perceptron(slides)
• 12.2 Multilayer Neural Networks(slides)
• 12.3 Training Neural Networks(slides)

Homework

• Homework 6(PDF)

Additional

• 16. Perceptron(PDF)
• Ensemble learning(PDF)
• Incorporating heuristics(PDF)
• Neural networks(PDF)

Discussion

• What does a hidden layer buy you that a perceptron cannot do?
• Write the forward pass of a two-layer net in one line of matrix products.