Editorial
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2025.
World J Clin Cases. Apr 16, 2025; 13(11): 100966
Published online Apr 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i11.100966
Table 2 List of currently available neural network models
Model
Variations
Use cases
Strengths
Weaknesses
Multilayer perceptronN/AClassification and regression tasksSimple architecture and good for baseline modelsNot ideal for spatial or sequential data. Can overfit with high dimensional data
Convolutional neural networksAlexNetImage recognitionCaptures spatial hierarchiesComputationally intensive
VGGNetObject detectionEffective for image processingRequires large datasets
ResNetComplex computer vision tasksResidual learning avoids vanishing gradientRequires higher computation
InceptionImage recornition with lower computationsEfficient use of resourcesArchitecture complexity
MobileNetMobile and embedded vision applicationsLightweight and efficientTrade-off in accuracy for efficiency
RNNLSTMLanguage modelingHandles sequential dataVanishing gradient problem
Gated recurrent unitTime series forecastingSimplified version of LSTMLess powerful for complex tasks
Bidirectional RNNSpeech recognitionConsiders past and future contextComputationally expensive
GANDCGANImage generationGenerates high quality dataTraining instability
CycleGANUnsupervised image-to-image translationAdvances data augmentationMode collapse issues
StyleGANSynthetic image creation for design tasksGenerates photorealistic imagesComputationally expensive
AutoencodersVariational autoencodersDimensionality reduction, generative tasksEffective for feature extractionBlurry reconstructions
Denoising autoencodersAnomaly detection and noise reductionRobust against noisy inputsLimited generative capability
TransformersBidirectional Encoder Representations from TransformersContextual embeddings for natural language processing tasksCaptures long-range dependenciesHigh computational requirements
General Purpose Transformers seriesGenerative tasks (e.g. text generation)Powerful generative abilitiesRequires vast amounts of training data
T5Text summarization, translationTask-agnostic and flexibleComputationally intensive
Graph neural networksGraph convolutional networksSocial network analysis, biological modelingHandles graph-structured dataScalability issues
Graph attention networks Recommendation systemsCaptures relational informationComplex architecture
GraphSAGEMolecular modeling, protein interactionsEffective for inductive learningRequires large-scale graph sampling
Self organizing maps N/AData visualizationIntuitive mapping and visualizationLess effective for high-dimensional data
Boltzmann machinesRestricted boltzmann machinesCollaborative filtering, dimensionality reductionProbabilistic feature learning Difficult to train
Deep belief networksFeature learning and pretrainingEffective for unsupervised learningComputationally expensive
Deep reinforcement learning modelsDeep Q networksGame playing (e.g., AlphaGo)Learns optimal policiesSample inefficiency
Proximal policy optimizationRobotics, autonomous navigationHandles high-dimensional inputsRequires hyperparameter tuning
Actor critic methodsAutonomous systemsBalances policy and value learningMay require extensive exploration