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Neural classifier construction using regularization, pruning and test error estimation

✍ Scribed by Mads Hintz-Madsen; Lars Kai Hansen; Jan Larsen; Morten With Pedersen; Michael Larsen


Book ID
104348906
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
375 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
0893-6080

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✦ Synopsis


In this paper we propose a method for construction of feed-forward neural classifiers based on regularization and adaptive architectures. Using a penalized maximum likelihood scheme, we derive a modified form of the entropic error measure and an algebraic estimate of the test error. In conjunction with optimal brain damage pruning, a test error estimate is used to select the network architecture. The scheme is evaluated on four classification problems.