• DocumentCode
    2142903
  • Title

    Parsimonious side propagation

  • Author

    Bradley, P.S. ; Mangasarian, O.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    12-15 May 1998
  • Firstpage
    1873
  • Abstract
    A fast parsimonious linear-programming-based algorithm for training neural networks is proposed that suppresses redundant features while using a minimal tra number of hidden units. This is achieved by propagating sideways to newly added hidden units the task of separating successive groups of unclassified points. Computational results show an improvement of 26.53% and 19.76% in tenfold cross-validation test correctness over a parsimonious perceptron on two publicly available datasets
  • Keywords
    learning (artificial intelligence); linear programming; neural nets; algorithm; cross-validation test correctness; datasets; fast parsimonious linear-programming; neural network training; parsimonious perceptron; parsimonious side propagation; unclassified points separation; Computer networks; Mathematical programming; Neural networks; Particle separators; Testing; Training data; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • ISSN
    1520-6149
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4428-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICASSP.1998.681829
  • Filename
    681829