학술논문

A new neural network structure with cooperative modules
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'94) Neural networks Neural Networks, 1994. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., 1994 IEEE International Conference on. 3:1301-1306 vol.3 1994
Subject
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Neural networks
Voting
Testing
Backpropagation
Computer science
Design engineering
Systems engineering and theory
Large-scale systems
Councils
Pipelines
Language
Abstract
A new neural network structure is proposed in order to solve complex (large) classification problems. At first, the problem is divided into a number of simpler sub-problems using an unsupervised network. Then, each sub-problem is solved using one module of the proposed network. The new addition to this traditional "divide-and-conquer" structure is a voting layer above the outputs of the modules. In this layer, the modules cooperate in deciding the final decision by training every module on some additional classes: each class represents a group of classes of another module. During testing, the average "vote" of the modules for each other is calculated and multiplied by the classes output. This scheme gave higher accuracy and faster learning speed than the backpropagation scheme. A recursive hierarchy of this network can be built-up for more enhancement to the performance.ETX