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Home/Glossary/Neural Network
AI Glossary Term

What does “Neural Network” mean?

Definition

A layered computational model inspired by biological neurons and synapses.

Related terms

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
A neural architecture optimized for processing grid-like data such as images.
Weight
A learned numeric value that scales signals passing through a neural network.
Backpropagation
The core training algorithm that updates model weights by propagating prediction errors backward through the network.
Deep Learning
A subset of machine learning that uses many-layer neural networks for representation learning.
GAN (Generative Adversarial Network)
A generative setup where a generator and discriminator train against each other.
Pruning
Removing less important model weights or neurons to reduce size and compute.

Learn more in our free guides

Neural NetworksHard Parameter Sharing in Multi-Task NetworksBidirectional Recurrent NetworksSqueeze-and-Excitation Networks

See also

Natural Language Processing (NLP)NormalizationNamed Entity Recognition (NER)OCR (Optical Character Recognition)Multimodal ModelOpen-Source ModelModel QuantizationOverfitting
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