Backpropagation Intuition — Roadmap Step & Resources
How a neural network's weights are updated based on its errors
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 2 days
- Roadmap: Machine Learning
Before this step
Interview questions
- At a high level, how does backpropagation use the chain rule to update earlier layers?
Study resources
- Gradient Descent, Step-by-Step (Video) — StatQuest's widely-loved, step-by-step explanation of the optimization backpropagation relies on.
- But what is backpropagation really doing? | Deep learning chapter 3 (Video) — 3Blue1Brown's legendary, intuitive explanation of backpropagation.
Part of
- Introduction to Neural Networks — section
- Machine Learning roadmap — the full learning path