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

Examples of neural network in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

While retaining basic upscaling and features such as frame generation and ray reconstruction, this version enhanced how these systems operate by adopting a new class of neural networks known as transformers. — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026

Li is famous for creating ImageNet, a vastly large dataset of images which provided the training data for large neural networks, which led to several major developments in AI. — Katie McQue, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026

Among them is the Wellcome Leap Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) program, where Infleqtion pioneered and demonstrated on hardware a quantum neural network approach with training on GPU and inference on QPU for biomarker discovery. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

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