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The generation of weights is an alternative method of loading a set of weights into an artificial neural network. It is a process that transforms a trained base net by multiplying its weights by symmetric matrices [1]. These weights are then assigned to a derived net. The derived nets map symmetrically related functions. At present, the process is limited because it cannot be applied to one-to-many...
An hybrid particle swarm optimization PSO-based wavelet neural network for modelling the development of fluid dispensing for electronic packaging is presented in this paper. In modelling the fluid dispensing process, it is important to understand the process behaviour as well as determine optimum operating conditions of the process for a high-yield, low cost and robust operation. Modelling the fluid...
Support vector machines have been extensively used in machine learning because of its efficiency and its theoretical background. This paper focuses on nu-transductive support vector machines for classification (nu-TSVC) and construct a new algorithm - Unconstrained nu-Transductive Support Vector Machines (Unu-TSVM). After researching on the special construction of primal problem in nu-TSVM, we transform...
In many practical applications besides a small generalization error also the interpretability of classification systems is of great importance. There is always a tradeoff among these two properties of classifiers. The similarity measure in the input space as defined by one of the most powerful classifiers, the Random Forest (RF) algorithm, is used in this paper as basis for the construction of Generalized...
A novel support vector machine (SVM) with weighted features is proposed. To assign appropriate weights for each feature, a mutual information (MI) based approach is presented. Although the calculation of feature weights may add an extra computational cost, the proposed method generally exhibits better generalization performance over the traditional SVM. The numerical studies on one synthetic and five...
This paper proposes a hierarchical architecture, HieNet, that utilizes the K-Iterations Fast Learning artificial Neural Network (KFLANN). Effective in its clustering capabilities, the KFLANN is capable of providing more stable and consistent clusters that are independent data presentation sequences (DPS). Leveraging on the ability to provide more consistent clusters, the KFLANN is initially used to...
Meta-Learning has been used to predict the performance of learning algorithms based on descriptive features of the learning problems. Each training example in this context, i.e. each meta-example, stores the features of a given problem and information about the empirical performance obtained by the candidate algorithms on that problem. The process of constructing a set of meta-examples may be expensive,...
Although supervised learning has been widely used to tackle problems of function approximation and regression estimation, prior knowledge fails to be incorporated into the data-driven approach because the form of input-output data pairs are not applied. To overcome this limitation, focusing on the fusion between rough fuzzy system and very rare samples of input-output pairs with noise, this paper...
Generative topographic mapping (GTM) is a latent variable model that, in its original version, was conceived to provide clustering and visualization of multivariate, real-valued, i.i.d. data. It was also extended to deal with noni. i.d. data such as multivariate time series in a variant called GTM through time (GTM-TT), defined as a constrained hidden Markov model (HMM). In this paper, we provide...
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations have been extensively used in many aerodynamic design optimization problems, such as wing and turbine blade shape design optimization. However, it normally takes very long time to solve such optimization problems due to the heavy computation load involved in CFD simulations, where a number of differential equations are to be solved. Some efforts have...
Dynamic multi-objective optimization (DMO) is one of the most challenging class of optimization problems where the objective functions change over time and the optimization algorithm is required to identify the corresponding Pareto optimal solutions with minimal time lag. DMO has received very little attention in the past and none of the existing multi-objective algorithms perform satisfactorily on...
This paper presents a novel support vector regression (SVR) network for financial time series prediction. The SVR network consists of two layers of SVR: transformation layer and prediction layer. The SVRs in the transformation layer forms a modular network; but distinguished with conventional modular networks, the partition of the SVR modular network is based on the output domain that has much smaller...
This paper presents a method to interpret the output of a classification (or regression) model. The interpretation is based on two concepts: the variable importance and the value importance of the variable. Unlike most of the state of art interpretation methods, our approach allows the interpretation of the model output for every instance. Understanding the score given by a model for one instance...
Exploratory activities seem to be crucial for our cognitive development. According to psychologists, exploration is an intrinsically rewarding behaviour. The developmental robotics aims to design computational systems that are endowed with such an intrinsic motivation mechanism. There are possible links between developmental robotics and machine learning. Affective computing takes into account emotions...
The process of segmenting images is one of the most critical ones in automatic image analysis whose goal can be regarded as to find what objects are presented in images. Artificial neural networks have been well developed. First two generations of neural networks have a lot of successful applications. Spiking neuron networks (SNNs) are often referred to as the 3rd generation of neural networks which...
The NetFlix Prize is a research contest that will award $1 Million to the first group to improve NetFlixpsilas movie recommendation system by 10%. Contestants are given a dataset containing the movie rating histories of customers for movies. From this data, a processing scheme must be developed that can predict how a customer will rate a given movie on a scale of 1 to 5. An architecture is presented...
In this paper, we present an effective computational approach for learning patterns of brain activity from the fMRI data. The procedure involved correcting motion artifacts, spatial smoothing, removing low frequency drifts and applying multivariate linear and non-linear kernel methods. Two novel techniques are applied: one utilizes the cosine transform to remove low-frequency drifts over time and...
Estimation of plant Jacobian is necessary for successful control of nonlinear systems using neural networks with the specialized learning scheme. Our previous study showed that neuro-emulators provide a better estimation of the plant Jacobian using a new cost function for learning during the course of dynamic modeling and control. This paper presents an approach for further enhancing the estimation...
In this paper, we present a biologically inspired method for detecting pedestrians in images. The method is based on a convolutional neural network architecture, which combines feature extraction and classification. The proposed network architecture is much simpler and easier to train than earlier versions. It differs from its predecessors in that the first processing layer consists of a set of pre-defined...
Backpropagation (BP) learning algorithm is the most widely supervised learning technique which is extensively applied in the training of multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. Many modifications have been proposed to improve the performance of BP, and BP with Magnified Gradient Function (MGFPROP) is one of the fast learning algorithms which improve both the convergence rate and the global convergence...
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