fully connected

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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A graph or network is said to be fully connected if there is a link between every possible pair of nodes. The term is also often applied to adjacent layers in a neural network in tbis case it measnthat each node in one layer is connecetd to verey node in the next layer, but not that the nodes within a layer itself are connected.

Used in Chap. 6: pages 84, 88, 89, 90, 92; Chap. 7: page 107; Chap. 8: page 112; Chap. 9: page 135

Boltzmann Machine – a fully connected network

Restricted Boltzmann Machine – fully connected between layers, but not within layers