A dynamical system perspective of structural learning with forgetting

  • Authors:
  • D. A. Miller;J. M. Zurada

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Structural learning with forgetting is an established method of using Laplace regularization to generate skeletal artificial neural networks. We develop a continuous dynamical system model of regularization in which the associated regularization parameter is generalized to be a time-varying function. Analytic results are obtained for a Laplace regularizer and a quadratic error surface by solving a different linear system in each region of the weight space. This model also enables a comparison of Laplace and Gaussian regularization. Both of these regularizers have a greater effect in weight space directions which are less important for minimization of a quadratic error function. However, for the Gaussian regularizer, the regularization parameter modifies the associated linear system eigenvalues, in contrast to its function as a control input in the Laplace case. This difference provides additional evidence for the superiority of the Laplace over the Gaussian regularizer