ALL meanings of neural network
neu·ral net·work
N n - abbreviation Technical meaning of NEURAL NETWORK artificial neural network 3
- noun Definition of neural network in Technology (artificial intelligence) (ANN, commonly just "neural network" or "neural net") A network of many very simple processors ("units" or "neurons"), each possibly having a (small amount of) local memory. The units are connected by unidirectional communication channels ("connections"), which carry numeric (as opposed to symbolic) data. The units operate only on their local data and on the inputs they receive via the connections. A neural network is a processing device, either an algorithm, or actual hardware, whose design was inspired by the design and functioning of animal brains and components thereof. Most neural networks have some sort of "training" rule whereby the weights of connections are adjusted on the basis of presented patterns. In other words, neural networks "learn" from examples, just like children learn to recognise dogs from examples of dogs, and exhibit some structural capability for generalisation. Neurons are often elementary non-linear signal processors (in the limit they are simple threshold discriminators). Another feature of NNs which distinguishes them from other computing devices is a high degree of interconnection which allows a high degree of parallelism. Further, there is no idle memory containing data and programs, but rather each neuron is pre-programmed and continuously active. The term "neural net" should logically, but in common usage never does, also include biological neural networks, whose elementary structures are far more complicated than the mathematical models used for ANNs. See Aspirin, Hopfield network, McCulloch-Pitts neuron. 1
- noun neural network pathways in the brain 1
- noun neural network any group of neurons that conduct impulses in a coordinated manner, as the assemblages of brain cells that record a visual stimulus. 1
- noun neural network Also called neural net. a computer model designed to simulate the behavior of biological neural networks, as in pattern recognition, language processing, and problem solving, with the goal of self-directed information processing. 1
- countable noun neural network In computing, a neural network is a program or system which is modelled on the human brain and is designed to imitate the brain's method of functioning, particularly the process of learning. 0
- noun neural network an interconnected system of neurons, as in the brain or other parts of the nervous system 0
- noun neural network an analogous network of electronic components, esp one in a computer designed to mimic the operation of the human brain 0
- noun neural network a computer system designed to perform tasks or make decisions based on generalized patterns it has derived from data: so called because orig. modeled after a processing method of the brain 0