Lecture 11 · Representation

What does a hidden layer build?

See the hidden features themselves, not only the final decision boundary.

ReLU half-spacesfeature compositionnonlinear decision regions
Predict first: A hidden ReLU unit is a nonlinear feature, but its boundary is still a line. How can several such units create a curved-looking or enclosed decision region?

h₁ activation

h₂ activation

h₃ activation

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