Understanding Basics of Deep Learning by solving XOR problem by Lalit Kumar Analytics Vidhya


If the network seems to be stuck, it has hit what is called a ‘local minimum’. As it approaches zero, the network will get out of the local minimum, and will shortly complete. This is because of a ‘momentum turn’ that is used in the calculation of the weights. Like I said earlier, the random synaptic weight will most likely not give us the correct output the first try.

M maps the internal representation to the output scalar. Some machine learning algorithms like neural networks are already a black box, we enter input in them and expect magic to happen. Still, it is important to understand what is happening behind the scenes in a neural network. Coding a simple neural network from scratch acts as a Proof of Concept in this regard and further strengthens our understanding of neural networks.

  • Millions of these neural connections exist throughout our bodies, collectively referred to as neural networks.
  • This is an example of a simple 3-input, 1-output neural network.
  • The Neural network architecture to solve the XOR problem will be as shown below.
  • Following the development proposed by Ian Goodfellow et al, let’s use the mean squared error function (just like a regression problem) for the sake of simplicity.

Here is the network as i understood, in order to set things clear. Now, this value is fed to a neuron which has a non-linear function(sigmoid in our case) for scaling the output to a desirable range. The scaled output of sigmoid is 0 if the output is less than 0.5 and 1 if the output is greater than 0.5. Our main aim is to find the value of weights or the weight vector which will enable the system to act as a particular gate.

Weight initialization is an important aspect of a neural network architecture. But, Similar to the case of input parameters, for many practical problems the output data available with us may have missing values to some given inputs. And it could be dealt with the same approaches described above. We are running 1000 iterations to fit the model to given data. Batch size is 4 i.e. full data set as our data set is very small.

The Multi-layered Perceptron

Similarly, for the (1,0) case, the value of W0 will be -3 and that of W1 can be +2. Remember you can take any values of the weights W0, W1, and W2 as long as the inequality is preserved. Once we understood some basics and learn how to measure the performance of our network we can figure out a lot of exciting things through trial and error. We also added another layer with an output dimension of 1 and without an explicit input dimension. In this case the input dimension is implicitly bound to be 16 since that’s the output dimension of the previous layer.

Out of all the 2 input logic gates, the XOR and XNOR gates are the only ones that are not linearly-separable. A perceptron can only converge on linearly separable data. Therefore, it isn’t capable of imitating the XOR function. This data is the same for each kind of logic gate, since they all take in two boolean variables as input. Because of the nature of the activation function, the activity on the output node can never reach either ‘0’ or ‘1’. We take values of less than 0.1 as equal to 0, and greater than 0.9 as equal to 1.

I will reshape the topics I introduced today within a geometrical perspective. In this way, every result we obtained today will xor neural network get its natural and intuitive explanation. Because their coordinates are positive, so the ReLU does not change their values.

The Representation Power of Perceptron Networks (MLP)🧠

First, we’ll have to assign random weights to each synapse, just as a starting point. We then multiply our inputs times these random starting weights. Yes, you will have to pay attention to the progression of the error rate.

Implementing the XOR Gate using Backpropagation in Neural Networks

If it is not, adjust the weight, multiply it by the input again, check the output and repeat, until we have reached an ideal synaptic weight. For a particular choice of the parameters w and b, the output ŷ only depends on the input vector x. I’m using ŷ (“y hat”) to indicate that this number has been produced/predicted by the model. Now that we are done with the necessary basic logic gates, we can combine them to give an XNOR gate.

xor-neural-network

It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment’s permalink. I would love to read the follow up with the implementation because I have problems of teaching MLP’s simple relationships. I could not find that one here yet, so if you could provide me a link I would be more than happy.

Add both the neurons and if they pass the treshold it’s positive. You can just use linear decision neurons for this with adjusting the biases for the tresholds. This tutorial is very heavy on the math and theory, but it’s very important that you understand it before we move on to the coding, so that you have the fundamentals down. In the next tutorial, we’ll put it into action by making our XOR neural network in Python.

And that’s all we have to set up before we can start training our model. We kick off the training by calling model.fit(…) with a bunch of parameters. The third parameter, metrics is actually much more interesting for our learning efforts. Here we can specify which metrics to collect during the training. We are interested in the binary_accuracy which gives us access to a number that tells us exactly how accurate our predictions are. Neural networks are now widespread and are used in practical tasks such as speech recognition, automatic text translation, image processing, analysis of complex processes and so on.

Learning parameters

In order to achieve 1 as the output, both the inputs should be 1. For the XOR problem, 100% of possible data examples are available to use in the training process. We can therefore expect the trained network to be 100% accurate in its predictions and there is no need to be concerned with issues such as bias and variance in the resulting model. There’s one last thing we have to do before we can start training our model.