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Optimization algorithm for artificial neural networks

In machine learning, backpropagation is a gradient computation method commonly used for training a neural network in computing parameter updates. Wikipedia →

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Noun An error correction technique used in neural networks.

Noun A phenomenon in which the action potential of a neuron creates a voltage spike both at the end of the axon, as normally, and also back through to the dendrites from which much of the original input current originated.

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