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# a) Fully Connected Networks or Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs)

#### Dense Networks / Fully Connected Networks or Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs)

Dense Networks are also known as Fully Connected Networks or Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs). These are the simplest type of artificial neural networks where information moves in only one direction, forward, from the input nodes, through the hidden nodes (if any), and to the output nodes.