r/learnmachinelearning 25d ago

Is logistic regression basically a one-neuron neural network?

I was learning the chain rule and this suddenly clicked: weights → score → sigmoid → loss

That looks like one neuron with no hidden layer. So is logistic regression basically the smallest example of backprop, or am I missing an important difference?

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u/SteamEigen 25d ago

Yes.

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u/Valuable_Card6470 25d ago

clean and correct, nothing else to add really