concept linear layer in category nlp

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2.4.2 Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and linear layers

There are two special types of neural network components that are important for sentiment analysis—recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and linear layers. I’ll explain them in detail in later chapters, but I’ll briefly describe what they are and their roles in sentiment analysis (or in general, sentence classification).

Figure 5.6: Applying linear layer to RNN