An artificial neural network (ANN) is a type of machine learning model inspired by neurons in the brain. 1,2 The individual components of the ANN receive information in numerical form, process it, and ...

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Artificial neural networks (ANN s) have proven to be extremely useful for solving problems such as classification, regression, function estimation and dimensionality reduction.

Artificial neural networks, as they currently stand, don't create new answers out of existing data. However, they can process data in a way that allows humans to find those answers.

Neural Networks use classifiers, which are algorithms that map the input data to a specific category. For instance, for a classifier, y = f* (x) maps the input x to the category y.

The examples above from the Asimov Institute in the Netherlands reveal the variety of network architectures that have been created. (Images courtesy of Fjodor van Veen and Stefan Leijnen (2019).

A simple example is improving efficiency: send the same input into the network over and over and over, and every time it generates the correct output, record the time it took to do so.

Artificial neural networks are composed of an input layer, which receives data from outside sources (data files, images, hardware sensors, microphone…), one or more hidden layers that process ...