Feedforward NN
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- University of Montreal
- C · CEO & Politics
- N/A (academic research) — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 1986
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- No free tier
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Research
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- Canada
- K · Key Staffers
- Yoshua Bengio (scientific director, Mila)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- N/A (research)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 2/10 · Significance 4/10 → 3.70
- R · What Makes It Special
- Feedforward neural language model: Bengio, Ducharme, Vincent and Jauvin at the Université de Montréal (A Neural Probabilistic Language Model, JMLR 2003) learned a distributed vector for each word jointly with a network that predicts the next word, the forerunner of modern word embeddings.
- S · Stock / Status
- University
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- [UNKNOWN]
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary LLM from University of Montreal, released 1986.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Feedforward NN.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/feedforward-nn-university-of-montreal.html