Neural Networks

CSC 261 - Weinman

Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.

1. Summarize the process of learning in neural networks using your own words.
2. Select the sentence from today's reading that you feel best describes the benefits of multilayer feed-forward neural networks. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain why you selected this sentence.
3. Select the sentence from today's reading that you feel makes the best distinction between learning in a perceptron and a multilayer neural network. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain why you selected this sentence.
4. Select the sentence or short passage (no more than three sentences, please) from today's reading that you feel best relates neural network learning to the maximum a posteriori (MAP) hypothesis method of Bayesian learning. Briefly explain why you selected this sentence or short passage.