The Mixture of Neural Networks as Ensemble Combiner

  • Authors:
  • Mercedes Fernández-Redondo;Joaquín Torres-Sospedra;Carlos Hernández-Espinosa

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Ingenieria y Ciencia de los Computadores, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain C.P. 12071;Departamento de Ingenieria y Ciencia de los Computadores, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain C.P. 12071;Departamento de Ingenieria y Ciencia de los Computadores, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain C.P. 12071

  • Venue:
  • ANNPR '08 Proceedings of the 3rd IAPR workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper we propose two new ensemble combiners based on the Mixture of Neural Networksmodel. In our experiments, we have applied two different network architectures on the methods based on the Mixture of Neural Networks: the Basic Network(BN) and the Multilayer Feedforward Network(MF). Moreover, we have used ensembles of MFnetworks previously trained with Simple Ensembleto test the performance of the combiners we propose. Finally, we compare the mixture combinersproposed with three different mixture models and other traditional combiners. The results show that the mixture combiners proposed are the best way to build Multi-net systems among the methods studied in the paper in general.