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give a definition of a convolutional neural network
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a convolutional neural network (cnn or convnet) is a type of feed-forward artificial neural network in which the connectivity pattern between its neurons is inspired by the organization of the animal visual cortex. in a convnet, neurons in the earlier layers have large receptive fields, allowing the network to capture patterns in spatial data such as images. by using multiple filtered images as an input, a convnet can learn to differentiate between various objects in images and classify them based on the content of the image.
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