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Building on the inspiration of the biological neuron, the artificial neural network (ANN) is a society of connectionist agents that learn and transfer information from one artificial neuron to the other. As data transfers between neurons, a hierarchy of representations or a hierarchy of features is learned, hence the name deep representation learning or deep learning.
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Bisong, E. (2019). Neural Network Foundations. In: Building Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platform. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4470-8_28
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