Deep Learning

How To Classify Handwritten Digits Using A Multilayer Perceptron Classifier

What is a Multilayer Perceptron? What are the pros and cons of MLP? Can we classify handwritten digits accurately using an MLP classifier? How do learned weights look like?

Serafeim Loukas, PhD
Towards AI
Published in
7 min readDec 7, 2021

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Figure 1: A Multilayer Perceptron Network (source).

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