Backpropagation
Introduction[edit]
Backpropagation is a method to calculate the gradient of the loss function with respect to the weights in an artificial neural network. It is commonly used as a part of algorithms that optimize the performance of the network by adjusting the weights, for example in the gradient descent algorithm. It is also called backward propagation of errors.[2]
Backpropagation, short for "backward propagation of errors," is an algorithm for supervised learning of artificial neural networks using gradient descent. Given an artificial neural network and an error function, the method calculates the gradient of the error function with respect to the neural network's weights. It is a generalization of the delta rule for perceptrons to multilayer feedforward neural networks.[3]