Neural Networks
Follow the effect backwards
A journey through backpropagation with Botie.
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Which Earlier Weight Helped Produce the Mistake?
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When a network gives a wrong answer, we can compare its final prediction with the target. But the prediction may have passed through many layers. An early weight did not produce the answer directly, so we need to work out how its influence travelled through the later calculations.