skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

PREFERRED TERM

backpropagation  

DEFINITION(S)

  • statistical method used to calculate the error gradient for each neuron in a neural network, from the last layer to the first. The gradient of a function of several variables at a given point is a vector that characterizes the variability of this function in the neighborhood of this point. (Source: translated from https://ia.gdria.fr/Glossaire/retropropagation-du-gradient/ )

BROADER CONCEPT(S)

SYNONYM(S)

  • backward propagation of errors

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION(S)

  • • Rumelhart, D. E., Hinton, G. E., & Williams, R. J. (1986). Learning internal representations by error propagation. In D. E. Rumelhart & J. L. McClelland (Eds.), Parallel distributed processing. Vol. 1 : Foundations (pp. 318‑362). MIT Press.

IN OTHER LANGUAGES

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/23L-CHPG4H6H-D

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Last modified 9/24/25