A New Method to Increase the Margin of Multilayer Perceptrons

  • Authors:
  • Vincent Lemaire;Olivier Bernier;Daniel Collobert;Fabrice Clérot

  • Affiliations:
  • France-Télécom CNET DTL/DLI/TNT, Technopole Anticipa, 2 Avenue Pierre Marzin, 22307 Lannion Cedex, France vins.lemaire@cnet.francetelecom.fr;France-Télécom CNET DTL/DLI/TNT, Technopole Anticipa, 2 Avenue Pierre Marzin, 22307 Lannion Cedex, France vins.lemaire@cnet.francetelecom.fr;France-Télécom CNET DTL/DLI/TNT, Technopole Anticipa, 2 Avenue Pierre Marzin, 22307 Lannion Cedex, France vins.lemaire@cnet.francetelecom.fr;France-Télécom CNET DTL/DLI/TNT, Technopole Anticipa, 2 Avenue Pierre Marzin, 22307 Lannion Cedex, France vins.lemaire@cnet.francetelecom.fr

  • Venue:
  • Neural Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

A new method to maximize the margin of MLP classifier in classification problems is described. Thismethod is based on a new cost function which minimizes the variance ofthe mean squared error. We show that with this cost function the generalizationperformance increase. This method is tested and compared with the standard mean square errorand is applied to a face detection problem.