Editing Perceptron (section)

{{Short description|Algorithm for supervised learning of binary classifiers}}
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{{Machine learning|Supervised learning}}
In [[machine learning]], the '''perceptron''' is an algorithm for [[supervised classification|supervised learning]] of [[binary classification|binary classifiers]].  A binary classifier is a function that can decide whether or not an input, represented by a vector of numbers, belongs to some specific class.{{r|largemargin}}  It is a type of [[linear classifier]], i.e. a classification algorithm that makes its predictions based on a [[linear predictor function]] combining a set of [[Weighting|weights]] with the [[feature vector]].