Optimal Extraction of Hidden Causes

  • Authors:
  • Luis F. Lago-Fernández;Fernando J. Corbacho

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICANN '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents a new framework extending previous work on multiple cause mixture models. We search for an optimal neural network codification of a given set of input patterns, which implies hidden cause extraction and redundancy elimination leading to a factorial code. We propose a new entropy measure whose maximization leads to both maximum information transmission and independence of internal representations for factorial input spaces in the absence of noise. No extra assumptions are needed, in contrast with previous models in which some information about the input space, such as the number of generators, must be known a priori.