What is bias?

Bias in deep learning is the constant term of a function that transforms m inputs into n outputs.

Below is a function that converts two inputs into three outputs.

use strict;
use warnings;

sub m_to_n_convert {
  my ($inputs) = @_;
  
  my $outputs = [];
  
  #Bias
  my $biases = [
    0.12,
    0.43,
    0.16,
  ];;
  
  # weight
  my $weights_mat = {
    rows_length => 3,
    columns_length => 2,
    values ​​=> [
      0.25,
      0.58,
      0.13,
      0.43,
      0.98,
      0.47,
    ]
  };;
  my $weights_mat_values ​​= $weights_mat->{values};
  
  #Bias is a constant term of a function that transforms m inputs into n outputs
  $outputs->[0] = $weights_mat_values->[0] * $inputs->[0] + $weights_mat_values->[3] * $inputs->[1] + $biases->[0];
  $outputs->[1] = $weights_mat_values->[1] * $inputs->[0] + $weights_mat_values->[4] * $inputs->[1] + $biases->[1];
  $outputs->[2] = $weights_mat_values->[2] * $inputs->[0] + $weights_mat_values->[5] * $inputs->[1] + $biases->[2];
  
  return $outputs;
}

The number of biases is the same as the number of outputs.

Bias is a parameter that is automatically adjusted

Bias is a parameter that is automatically adjusted using a learning algorithm. The value of loss function, which is an index of error, is updated to be smaller. Parameter update algorithms such as gradient descent are used for the update.

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