neural network
noun
: a computer architecture in which a number of processors are interconnected in a manner suggestive of the connections between neurons in a human brain and which is able to learn by a process of trial and error
called also neural net
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Validation was performed in MuJoCo, with the jet dynamics represented by a neural network trained to capture complex engine behaviour.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Figure and Tesla are collecting video data of humans performing actions, and feeding that data into a neural network.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
To read and make sense of the graphs, the team used graph neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence designed to extract relationships between the nodes by passing messages along the edges of the connections among them.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
One example is neuron selectivity in neural networks for classifying images.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2025
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Figure and Tesla are collecting video data of humans performing actions, and feeding that data into a neural network.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
To read and make sense of the graphs, the team used graph neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence designed to extract relationships between the nodes by passing messages along the edges of the connections among them.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
One example is neuron selectivity in neural networks for classifying images.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Neural network.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neural%20network. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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