It is not uncommon to read news articles or encounter people who misuse the term deep learning in place of machine learning. This is due to the fact that this particular sub-field of machine learning has become very successful at solving plenty of previously unsolvable image processing and natural language processing problems. This success has caused many to confuse the child field with its parent.
The term deep learning refers to deep Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The latter concept comes in different forms and shapes. In this chapter, we are going to cover one subset of feedforward neural networks known as the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP). It is one of the most commonly used types and is implemented by scikit-learn. As its name suggests, it is composed of multiple layers, and it is a feedforward network as there are no cyclic connections between its layers. The more...
