An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks for Beginners

A simple walkthrough of what RNNs are, how they work, and how to build one from scratch in Python.

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are a kind of neural network that specialize in processing sequences. They’re often used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks because of their effectiveness in handling text. In this post, we’ll explore what RNNs are, understand how they work, and build a real one from scratch (using only numpy) in Python.