[rg111]

Dude, that's not how anyone teaches NNs or learns NNs.

You don't need graph theory to understand NNs at all.

You need Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus, though.

You do need graph theory to understand and do Graph Neural Networks. But that's a subfield of modern AI and many AI researchers don't know/study/research Graph NNs at all.

You don't actually need to know graph theory to do RL, Vision, ANNs, NLP, etc. unless explicitly needed in your research/job.

[slowhadoken]

A neural network is a graph structure. It’s not rocket science. It’s basic computer science data structure stuff. If you know linear algebra and differential calculus understanding what a graph is is trivial.