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Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) or Systems Are Computing Systems Vaguely

Artificial neural networks (ANN) are computing systems inspired by biological neural networks that make up animal brains. ANN use a framework of machine learning algorithms to process complex data without being explicitly programmed. They learn by considering examples labeled with the desired outputs, and can identify patterns to classify new examples. ANN consist of interconnected artificial neurons that transmit signals to each other through connections called edges. Signals at the connections are adjusted through learning to increase or decrease their strength.

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Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) or Systems Are Computing Systems Vaguely

Artificial neural networks (ANN) are computing systems inspired by biological neural networks that make up animal brains. ANN use a framework of machine learning algorithms to process complex data without being explicitly programmed. They learn by considering examples labeled with the desired outputs, and can identify patterns to classify new examples. ANN consist of interconnected artificial neurons that transmit signals to each other through connections called edges. Signals at the connections are adjusted through learning to increase or decrease their strength.

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Artificial neural networks (ANN) or connectionist systems are computing systems vaguely

inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains.[1] The neural network
itself is not an algorithm, but rather a framework for many different machine learning algorithms
to work together and process complex data inputs.[2] Such systems "learn" to perform tasks by
considering examples, generally without being programmed with any task-specific rules. For
example, in image recognition, they might learn to identify images that contain cats by analyzing
example images that have been manually labeled as "cat" or "no cat" and using the results to
identify cats in other images. They do this without any prior knowledge about cats, for example,
that they have fur, tails, whiskers and cat-like faces. Instead, they automatically generate
identifying characteristics from the learning material that they process.
An ANN is based on a collection of connected units or nodes called artificial neurons, which
loosely model the neurons in a biological brain. Each connection, like the synapses in a
biological brain, can transmit a signal from one artificial neuron to another. An artificial neuron
that receives a signal can process it and then signal additional artificial neurons connected to it.
In common ANN implementations, the signal at a connection between artificial neurons is a real
number, and the output of each artificial neuron is computed by some non-linear function of the
sum of its inputs. The connections between artificial neurons are called 'edges'. Artificial neurons
and edges typically have a weightthat adjusts as learning proceeds. The weight increases or
decreases the strength of the signal at a connection. Artificial neurons may have a threshold
such that the signal is only sent if the aggregate signal crosses that threshold. Typically, artificial
neurons are aggregated into layers. Different layers may perform different kinds of
transformations on their inputs. Signals travel from the first layer (the input layer), to the last layer
(the output layer), possibly after traversing the layers multiple times.
The original goal of the ANN approach was to solve problems in the same way that a human
brain would. However, over time, attention moved to performing specific tasks, leading to
deviations from biology. Artificial neural networks have been used on a variety of tasks,
including computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, social
network filtering, playing board and video games and medical diagnosis.

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