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I took the course Machine Learning A-Z from Udemy and am trying to apply what I learned in the tutorials. Theye taught us in the "Adding the input layer" portion of an ANN that the units is based off of the input_dim. Normally the "units = (input_dim + 1) / 2". In the dataset that I am working with my input_dim=754. (754 + 1) / 2 = 377.5. Should I use 377.5 or should I round up or down to a whole number?

#Adding the input layer and the first hidden layer
classifier.add(Dense(units=377.5, kernel_initializer='uniform', activation='relu', input_dim=754))
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  • $\begingroup$ It does not make a difference it is just an approximation..no offence but i suggest you take a better course which will strengthen your basics $\endgroup$ – DuttaA Aug 15 '18 at 17:22
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Round up or down to a whole number. Keras documentation specifies that units should be a positive integer, and I'm not sure what a fractional unit would even mean. Does this work when you try to run it?

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  • $\begingroup$ I have tried it with a whole number and it works, but I was unsure if you could use a decimal. You answered my question. $\endgroup$ – sectechguy Aug 15 '18 at 20:14

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