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title: "Step-by-step guide to building an artificial neural network and observing how overfitting occurs with MNIST and CNN architecture"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/step-by-step-guide-to-building-an-artificial-neural-network-and-observing-how-overfitting-occurs-wit-qyifzfnen
source_url: https://ai.gopubby.com/step-by-step-guide-to-building-an-artificial-neural-network-and-observing-how-overfitting-occurs-84961f96c7e8
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2024-03-17T05:21:30.744Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:05.588Z
tags: ["deep-learning", "data-processing", "overfitting", "mnist"]
reading_time: 21
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
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# Step-by-step guide to building an artificial neural network and observing how overfitting occurs with MNIST and CNN architecture

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 21 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A step-by-step guide to building an artificial neural network with the MNIST dataset using CNN architecture. The post covers accessing the data, data preprocessing, normalization, model architecture design, model compilation, training, evaluation, and detecting overfitting.

## Full article

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Tags: [#deep-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/deep-learning), [#data-processing](https://daily.dev/tags/data-processing), [#overfitting](https://daily.dev/tags/overfitting), [#mnist](https://daily.dev/tags/mnist)

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