The Structure and Function of Neurons with Variable Nonlinear Transfer Function

One novel neuron with variable nonlinear transfer function is firstly proposed, It could also be called as subsection transfer function neuron. With different transfer function components, by virtue of multi-thresholded, the variable transfer function neuron switch on among different nonlinear excited state. And the comparison of output´s transfer characteristics between it and single-thresholded neuron is illustrated, with some practical application experiments on bi-level logic operation, at last the simple comparison with conventional BP, RBF, and even DBF NN is taken to expect the development foreground on the variable neuron. The novel nonlinear transfer function neuron could implement the random nonlinear mapping relationship between input layer and output layer, which could make variable transfer function neuron have one much wider applications on lots of research realm such as function approximation, pattern recognition, data compress and so on