• DocumentCode
    3207742
  • Title

    Constructive and pruning methods for neural network design

  • Author

    Costa, Marcelo Azevedo ; Braga, Antonio Pádua ; De Menezes, Benjamin Rodrigues

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    49
  • Lastpage
    54
  • Abstract
    This paper presents methods to improve generalization of multilayer perceptron (MLP) by pruning the original topology without loss in performance. Topology information and validation sets are used. The results show that these techniques are able to choose a minimum network topology and to simplify trained networks.
  • Keywords
    generalisation (artificial intelligence); multilayer perceptrons; MLP; constructive methods; generalization; minimum network topology; multilayer perceptron; neural network design; topology information sets; topology pruning; topology validation sets; trained networks; Multilayer perceptrons; Network topology; Neural networks; Performance loss; Sampling methods; Shape; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks, 2002. SBRN 2002. Proceedings. VII Brazilian Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-1709-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SBRN.2002.1181434
  • Filename
    1181434