Build a Neural Network from Scratch in R

This course builds upon single layers to construct a complete Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). You'll learn to stack layers, explore different activation functions like ReLU and Softmax, and understand the importance of weight initialization for effective training.

This course dives into how neural networks learn from data. You'll implement loss functions to measure prediction errors, understand the intuition and mechanics of gradient descent, master the backpropagation algorithm to calculate gradients, and use an optimizer to update network weights.

This course focuses on transforming your code into a reusable R package and applying it to a real-world problem. You'll refactor your existing components into a structured package, build a Model R6 class for easier network definition and training, and finally, train your neural network on the Boston Housing dataset for a regression task.