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What is the difference between a feedforward neural network and a recurrent neural network?


Asked by Kellen Nichols on Dec 08, 2021 FAQ



A recurrent neural network (RNN) is a class of artificial neural networks where connections between nodes form a directed graph along a temporal sequence. This allows it to exhibit temporal dynamic behavior. Unlike feedforward neural networks, RNNs can use their internal state (memory) to process sequences of inputs.
Just so,
A Feed-Forward Neural Network is a type of Neural Network architecture where the connections are "fed forward", i.e. do not form cycles (like in recurrent nets). The term "Feed forward" is also used when you input something at the input layer and it travels from input to hidden and from hidden to output layer.
In respect to this, The primary condition that separates FFNN from recurrent architectures is that the inputs to a neuron must come from the layer before that neuron. Recurrent neural networks are mathematically quite similar to FFNN models. Their main difference is that the restriction placed on FFNN is no longer applied:
Next,
Feed Forward Neural Networks – This is the most common kind of Neural Network architecture wherein the first layer is the input layer, and the final layer is the output layer. All intermediary layers are hidden layers.
Consequently,
A recurrent network is much harder to train than a feedforward network. In addition, it is assumed that in a perceptron, all the arrows are going from layer $i$ to layer $i+1$, and it is also usual (to start with having) that all the arcs from layer $i$ to $i+1$ are present.