What is Sparse Connectivity? | What is Sparse network ? | What is Sparse activity? | What is Sparse data?

Sparse means “Few and scattered” and an adjective of Latin word “sparsus”.

Sparse connectivity: means that every neuron is connected with only a few numbers of other neurons at a time.

Sparse network in which all neurons are connected to lesser than the maximum possible number of links within the network or we can say it is opposite to a dense or fully connected network.

Sparse activity means only a very few percentages of neurons are active at a time.

Sparse data in which the percentage of cells that do not contain data or missing data is higher