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Introduction to Neural Networks

  1. Understanding Neural Networks
  2. Current trends in the application of neural networks
  3. Neural Networks compared to regression models
  4. Supervised and unsupervised learning

Overview of Available Packages

  1. nnet, neuralnet, and other tools
  2. Differences between packages and their respective limitations
  3. Visualizing neural networks

Applying Neural Networks

  • The concept of neurons and neural networks
  • A simplified model of the brain
  • Opportunities within neuron architecture
  • The XOR problem and the nature of value distribution
  • The polymorphic nature of sigmoidal functions
  • Other activation functions
  • Constructing neural networks
  • The concept of neuron connectivity
  • Representing neural networks as nodes
  • Building a network
  • Neurons
  • Layers
  • Scales
  • Input and output data
  • Normalizing values from 0 to 1
  • Normalization techniques
  • Learning processes in Neural Networks
  • Backpropagation
  • Step-by-step propagation
  • Network training algorithms
  • Range of applications
  • Estimation
  • Problems regarding the possibility of approximation
  • Examples
  • OCR and image pattern recognition
  • Other applications
  • Implementing a neural network modeling task to predict stock prices for listed companies

Requirements

Prior experience programming in any language is recommended.

 14 Hours

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