Neural Net Spiral

This data set is a noisy spiral. Obviously, a linear model will fail here, but even manually defined feature crosses may be hard to construct.

Task 1: Train the best model you can, using just X₁ and X₂. Feel free to add or remove layers and neurons, change learning settings like learning rate, regularization rate, and batch size. What is the best test loss you can get? How smooth is the model output surface?

Task 2: Even with Neural Nets, some amount of feature engineering is often needed to achieve best performance. Try adding in additional cross product features or other transformations like sin(X₁) and sin(X₂). Do you get a better model? Is the model output surface any smoother?

(Answers appear just below the exercise.)

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The following video walks through how to choose hyperparameters in Playground to train a model for the spiral data that minimizes test loss.