backpropagation

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noun
  1. 1

    (machine learning) An error correction technique used in neural networks.

  2. 2

    (neurology) A phenomenon in which the action potential of a neuron creates a voltage spike both at the end of the axon, as normally, and also back through to the dendrites from which much of the original input current originated.