Neural Network: Taxonomy

K. Ming Leung
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Polytechnic School of Engineering, NYU

2014.06.14

K. Ming Leung (Department of Computer Science and EngineeringPolytechnic

CS1133
School of Engineering, NYU)

2014.06.14

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Neural Network: Taxonomy

Neural network is a subfield of machine learning, which in turn is a subfield
of artificial intelligence (AI).
Artificial intelligence an academic field of study that deals with machines
or software that exhibit human-like intelligence.
Machine learning, according to Author Samuels old informal definition, is
the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being
explicitly programmed. Tom Mitchell gave a modern definition: A
computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some
class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks T,
as measured by P, improves with experience E.
For example in playing the game of checkers,
E the experience of playing many games of checkers
T the task of playing checkers
P the probability that the program will win the next game.
K. Ming Leung (Department of Computer Science and EngineeringPolytechnic
CS1133
School of Engineering, NYU)

2014.06.14

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