Series2017
Neural networks
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)
Develops backpropagation visually from gradient descent on a cost surface, showing what the algorithm computes rather than restating the chain rule.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning
Backpropagation
A topic within Deep Learning, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Artificial Intelligence.
Reading on Backpropagation
22 works
Paper1986
Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors
Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams
Assigning error to hidden units by the chain rule lets a multi-layer network discover its own internal representations instead of having them designed by hand.
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