• DocumentCode
    1482208
  • Title

    Worst case analysis of weight inaccuracy effects in multilayer perceptrons

  • Author

    Anguita, Davide ; Ridella, Sandro ; Rovetta, Stefano

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Biophys. & Electron. Eng., Genoa Univ., Italy
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    3/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    415
  • Lastpage
    418
  • Abstract
    We derive a method for the analysis of weight quantization effects in multilayer perceptrons based on the application of interval arithmetic. Differently from previous results, we find worst case bounds on the errors due to weight quantization, that are valid for every distribution of the input or weight values. Given a trained network, our method allows us to easily compute the minimum number of bits needed to encode its weights
  • Keywords
    multilayer perceptrons; pattern classification; quantisation (signal); interval arithmetic; trained network; weight inaccuracy effects; weight quantization effects; worst case analysis; Algorithm design and analysis; Arithmetic; Computer aided software engineering; Computer networks; Multilayer perceptrons; Noise robustness; Nonhomogeneous media; Performance analysis; Quantization; Registers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1045-9227
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/72.750571
  • Filename
    750571