Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Learn Unity ML-Agents ??? Fundamentals of Unity Machine Learning

You're reading from   Learn Unity ML-Agents ??? Fundamentals of Unity Machine Learning Incorporate new powerful ML algorithms such as Deep Reinforcement Learning for games

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138139
Length 204 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Micheal Lanham Micheal Lanham
Author Profile Icon Micheal Lanham
Micheal Lanham
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Neural network foundations

Neural networks provide the foundations for some of the most impressive AI/ML algorithms that we have seen in recent years. They have also become the cornerstone or standard for several areas of AI, from image and speech recognition to playing Atari games. This sounds really intimidating, but actually, a neural network is a quite a simple and elegant structure modeled after our own human brain. The foundation of our brain and nervous system is a single neuron, shown in the following image beside a simulated computer neuron:



A neuron

The simulated neuron in the preceding diagram represents the structure of a single neuron. The inputs, or signals, into the neuron are typically summed and then evaluated against some form of activation function. You can see an example activation function in the diagram. When a neuron is activated, or fired, it sends out...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image