Abstract
The course introduces multilayer perceptrons in a self-contained way by providing motivations, architectural issues, and the main ideas behind the Backpropagation learning algorithm. In addition, the course shows how multilayer perceptrons can be successfully used in real-world applications

Educational Course Subject Areas
Artificial Intelligence ,  Circuits & Devices ,  Robotics & Automation

Keywords
Artificial neuron ,  Backpropagation ,  Batch-mode learning ,  Cross-validation ,  Generalization ,  Local minima ,  Multilayer perceptron ,  On-line learning ,  Premature saturation ,  Supervised learning