thinQmaster Virtual testing partner Adaptive practice exams that find your weak spots and drill them. Every answer explained. From $69
Enroll

thinQmaster

Find your exam

Five questions free, before you decide.

Step 1 · choose a vendor

In one of our camps? Your practice exams come with the tuition — they are on your study page already.

AI & Machine Learning · Intermediate

Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)

A feedforward neural network with one or more hidden layers of fully connected neurons.

Definition

MLPs use nonlinear activations between dense layers and can approximate a wide range of functions. Transformer blocks contain an MLP (feed-forward) sublayer after attention.

Exam tip

An MLP needs at least one hidden layer with a nonlinear activation to learn non-linear patterns such as XOR.

Related terms