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4.4 Perceptrons

What Is a Perceptron?

A perceptron is a single computational unit that takes a vector of real-valued inputs x₁, x₂, …, xₙ, computes their weighted sum, and outputs +1 if the sum exceeds a threshold, -1 otherwise.

Output o(x₁, ..., xₙ):
  = +1   if   w₀ + w₁x₁ + w₂x₂ + ... + wₙxₙ  >  0
  = -1   otherwise

Each wᵢ is a real-valued weight. The quantity −w₀ is the threshold that the weighted sum must exceed.