• DocumentCode
    309303
  • Title

    Dynamically deactivating hidden neurons in a multilayer perceptron neural network

  • Author

    Amin, H. ; Curtis, K.M. ; Hayes-Gill, B.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nottingham Univ., UK
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    13-16 Oct 1996
  • Firstpage
    291
  • Abstract
    In this paper we present an approach that terminates the processing of hidden nodes, within a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network, if they become inactive during the learning process. The determination of the activity and non-activity of hidden nodes are based on the mean deviation of changes in the average derivative of the hidden nodes within an interval of several iterations. A decreasing threshold value is used to evaluate the mean deviation and hence to deactivate the hidden nodes accordingly
  • Keywords
    backpropagation; multilayer perceptrons; MLP neural network; dynamic deactivation; hidden neurons deactivation; learning process; mean deviation evaluation; multilayer perceptron neural network; threshold value reduction; Backpropagation algorithms; Intelligent networks; Iterative algorithms; Mean square error methods; Monitoring; Multi-layer neural network; Multilayer perceptrons; Neural networks; Neurons; Nonlinear equations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 1996. ICECS '96., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rodos
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3650-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICECS.1996.582807
  • Filename
    582807