Build a Shallow Neural Network

Theory and Implementation Explained

Jeremy Zhang
Towards Data Science
5 min readOct 31, 2020

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One Hidden Layer NN

We will build a shallow dense neural network with one hidden layer, and the following structure is used for illustration purpose.

Before trying to understand this post, I strongly suggest you to go through my pervious implementation of logistic regression, as logistic regression can be seem as a 1-layer neural network and the basic concept is actually the same.

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