The document discusses the backpropagation algorithm for training neural networks. It provides the following key steps:
1. The network performs a forward pass with input data and weights to calculate outputs.
2. The prediction error is calculated by comparing outputs to desired outputs.
3. A backward pass is performed to calculate the contribution of each weight to the overall error using derivatives and chain rule.
4. Weights are updated using gradient descent to reduce the prediction error in subsequent iterations.