Two Neural Network Construction Methods

  • Authors:
  • G. Thimm;E. Fiesler

  • Affiliations:
  • IDIAP, P.O. box 592, CH-1920 Martigny, Switzerland. E-mail: Georg.Thimm@idiap.ch;IDIAP, P.O. box 592, CH-1920 Martigny, Switzerland. E-mail: Georg.Thimm@idiap.ch

  • Venue:
  • Neural Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Two low complexity methods for neural network construction, that areapplicable to various neural network models, are introduced and evaluated forhigh order perceptrons. The methods are based on a Boolean approximation ofreal-valued data. This approximation is used to construct an initial neuralnetwork topology which is subsequently trained on the original (real-valued) data. The methods are evaluated for their effectiveness in reducing the network sizeand increasing the network‘s generalization capabilities in comparison tofully connected high order perceptrons.