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What is: Feedforward Network?

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A Feedforward Network, or a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), is a neural network with solely densely connected layers. This is the classic neural network architecture of the literature. It consists of inputs xx passed through units hh (of which there can be many layers) to predict a target yy. Activation functions are generally chosen to be non-linear to allow for flexible functional approximation.

Image Source: Deep Learning, Goodfellow et al