Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
Artificial Neural Network (ANN), is a group of multiple perceptrons or neurons at each layer. ANN is also known as a Feed-Forward Neural network because inputs are processed only in the forward direction.
This type of neural networks are one of the simplest variants of neural networks. They pass information in one direction, through various input nodes, until it makes it to the output node. The network may or may not have hidden node layers, making their functioning more interpretable.
Advantages:
- Storing information on the entire network.
- Ability to work with incomplete knowledge.
- Having fault tolerance.
- Having a distributed memory.
Disadvantages:
- Hardware dependence.
- Unexplained behavior of the network.
- Determination of proper network structure.