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Certificate of Completion

Introduction to Neural Networks

Presented To

Siddhivinayak Waghmode

Certificate ID

sn89-gxbt-q9wd-zqe7

Issued Date

January 7, 2026

Description

Gain a foundational understanding of neural network concepts and implementation. This course covers the essential components of neural networks, including neuron structure, activation functions, network architecture, and the training process involving forward and backward propagation. Learn how to prepare data, calculate loss, apply gradient descent, and build simple networks using common techniques.

Certificate Details

Course Level:

Professional

Issued Date:

January 7, 2026

Certificate ID:

sn89-gxbt-q9wd-zqe7

Learning Outcomes

  • Describe the components of a neural network, including neurons, layers, weights, and biases.
  • Explain the purpose and characteristics of common activation functions like Sigmoid, Tanh, and ReLU.
  • Understand techniques for preparing data for neural network training, including scaling and encoding.
  • Implement the forward pass calculation to generate predictions from a neural network.
  • Explain the process of backpropagation for calculating gradients.
  • Apply gradient descent and its variants to update network weights and minimize loss.
  • Implement a basic neural network training loop.
  • Understand common techniques like L1/L2 regularization and dropout to prevent overfitting.
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