MLP Training
Introduction
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The Universal Approximation Theorem says a suitable neural network exists for any function — but not how to find it. This post explains training as exactly that search: starting from random parameters that produce garbage predictions, and letting an algorithm learn the solution from a dataset of inputs and labeled outputs.