multilayer perceptron

noun

A neural network having at least one hidden layer, and whose neurons use a nonlinear activation function (e.g. sigmoid).

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Meanings

nounmultilayer perceptron (plural multilayer perceptrons)

plural multilayer perceptrons · alternative initialism MLP

  1. machine learningA neural network having at least one hidden layer, and whose neurons use a nonlinear activation function (e.g. sigmoid).
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