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MULTILAYER

PERCEPTRON
INTRODUCTION
► Three layer network.
► Forward propagation
► Multilayer perceptron
► Back propagation algorithm
CHARACTERISTIC
► Non linear activation function.
► Sigmoidal non linearity defined by:
Yi=1/(1+exp(-Vj))
Vj= induced local field of neuron j
Yi=o/p of the neuron
Cotd…
► Hidden layers
► High degree of connectivity
ARCHITECTURE

O/P SIGNAL
(RESPONSE
)

O/P
1
ST 2ND
I/P LAYER
HIDDEN HIDDEN
L;AYER
LAYER LAYER
Forward propagation and back
propagation

Function signal

Error signal
ARCHITECTURE
► Two types of signal are:

FUNCTION SIGNALS

ERROR SIGNALS
FUNCTION OF HIDDEN LAYER
Each hidden layer or output neuron of
multilayer perceptron is designed to perform
2 computations:
► Function signal at output
► Estimate of gradient vector.

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