How to Choose a Neural Network

The following table attempts to show the neural nets most useful for different problems.

Start with Neural Nets Overview for additional information on common structures and some code snipets:

Further reading

Natural Language Processing (Almost) from Scratch; Ronan Collobert, Jason Weston, Leon Bottou, Michael Karlen, Koray Kavukcuoglu and Pavel Kuksa; NEC Laboratories America

Deep Belief Networks for phone recognition; Abdel-rahman Mohamed, George Dahl, and Geoffrey Hinton; Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

An Analysis of Gaussian-Binary Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Natural Images; Nan Wang, Jan Melchior and Laurenz Wiskott; Institut fuer Neuroinformatik and International Graduate School of Neuroscience