Basics of anns Generic layout of an ANN 3 types of layers present-input, intermediate(hidden), output ALL nodes(neurons) of a layer connected to all nodes of neighbouring layers Input layer Hidden Layers Output Layer Feed Forward network- information signal al ways propagates in the forward direction DCABES. October 2009DCABES, October 2009 Basics of ANNs Generic layout of an ANN • 3 types of layers present-input, intermediate (hidden), output • ALL nodes (neurons) of a layer connected to ALL nodes of neighbouring layers Feed Forward network- information signal always propagates in the forward direction