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Mike Bernico
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Mike Bernico is a Lead Data Scientist at State Farm Mutual Insurance Companies. He also works as an adjunct for the University of Illinois at Springfield, where he teaches Essentials of Data Science, and Advanced Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Mike earned his MSCS from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He's an advocate for open source software and the good it can bring to the world. As a lifelong learner with umpteen hobbies, Mike also enjoys cycling, travel photography, and wine making.
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Building an MLP in Keras

Keras uses an instance of a model object to contain a neural network. For those of you familiar with scikit-learn, this is probably quite familiar. What is somewhat different is that Keras models contain a set of layers. This set of layers needs to be defined by us. This allows for amazing flexibility in network architecture, with very little code.

Keras currently has two APIs for building models. In my examples, I'll be using the functional API. It's slightly more verbose but it allows additional flexibility. I'd recommend using the functional API whenever possible.

Our MLP will need an input layer, a hidden layer, and an output layer.

Input layer shape

Since we've already identified...

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Mike Bernico is a Lead Data Scientist at State Farm Mutual Insurance Companies. He also works as an adjunct for the University of Illinois at Springfield, where he teaches Essentials of Data Science, and Advanced Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Mike earned his MSCS from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He's an advocate for open source software and the good it can bring to the world. As a lifelong learner with umpteen hobbies, Mike also enjoys cycling, travel photography, and wine making.
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