https://towardsdatascience.com/is-learning-rate-useful-in-artificial-neural-networks-84ee5b6976d6 > This article will help you understand why we need the learning rate and whether it is useful or not for training an artificial neural network. Using a very simple Python code for a single layer perceptron, the learning rate value will get changed to catch its idea. > An obstacle for newbies in artificial neural networks is the learning rate. I was asked many times about the effect of the learning rate in the training of the artificial neural networks (ANNs). Why we use learning rate? What is the best value for the learning rate? In this article, I will try to make things simpler by providing an example that shows how learning rate is useful in order to train an ANN. I will start by explaining our example with Python code before working with the learning rate.