neural network
/ˌnjʊərəl ˈnetwɜːrk/
A computing system inspired by biological neural networks
neural network in a sentence
“The neural network learned to recognize faces with remarkable accuracy.”
Origin of neural network
From Greek neuron (nerve) + Latin rete (net); coined in 1940s to describe brain-inspired computing
Related Words
deep learning
Machine learning using neural networks with many layers
supervised learning
Training a model on labeled data with known outputs
unsupervised learning
Finding patterns in data without labeled examples
reinforcement learning
Learning through trial and error with rewards and penalties
transformer
A neural network architecture using self-attention mechanisms
embedding
A dense vector representation of data in continuous space