Please Stop Drawing Neural Networks Wrong

The case for GOOD diagrams

Image by the authors, adapted from https://tikz.net/neural_networks/ (CC BY-SA 4.0)

By Aaron Master and Doron Bergman

If you’re one of the millions of people who has tried to learn neural networks, odds are you’ve seen something like the above image.

There’s just one problem with this diagram: it’s nonsense.

By which we mean confusing, incomplete, and probably wrong. The diagram, inspired by one in a famous online Deep Learning course, excludes all of the bias …

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