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A neural network is a powerful learning algorithm modeled after the human brain. It can be used for tasks like predicting housing prices from attributes such as size, number of bedrooms, zip code, and wealth of the area. The neural network generates hidden units to automatically fit a function for the prediction, requiring only the input attributes and output price as training data. Rectified linear units are used to ensure predicted prices are never negative.

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Neural Networks 1

A neural network is a powerful learning algorithm modeled after the human brain. It can be used for tasks like predicting housing prices from attributes such as size, number of bedrooms, zip code, and wealth of the area. The neural network generates hidden units to automatically fit a function for the prediction, requiring only the input attributes and output price as training data. Rectified linear units are used to ensure predicted prices are never negative.

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What is neural network?

It is a powerful learning algorithm inspired by how the brain works.

Example 1 – single neural network


Given data about the size of houses on the real estate market and you want to fit a function that will
predict their price. It is a linear regression problem because the price as a function of size is a continuous
output.

We know the prices can never be negative so we are creating a function called Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU)
which starts at zero.

The input is the size of the house (x)

The output is the price (y)

The “neuron” implements the function ReLU (blue line)

Example 2 – Multiple neural network


The price of a house can be affected by other features such as size, number of bedrooms, zip code and
wealth. The role of the neural network is to predicted the price and it will automatically generate the
hidden units. We only need to give the inputs x and the output y.

Input layer Hidden unit

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