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Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)

Artificial Neural Networks, usually just termed neural networks or neural nets, are computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains. An ANN is based on a collection of connected units or nodes called artificial neurons, which loosely model the neurons in a biological brain.