Stochastic search algorithm-based multilink neural network

Zhengping Lang; Zhen Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.152647

19 August 1993 Stochastic search algorithm-based multilink neural network

Zhengping Lang, Zhen Zhang

Proceedings Volume 1966, Science of Artificial Neural Networks II; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.152647
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In this paper we present a new network architecture based on a Multi-Link Neural Network (MLNN) model. An MLNN has a structure similar to that of a feedforward network except that each connection between a pair of nodes in the hidden layer and the output layer is made of multiple links with possibly different weight values. This results in an aggregation of a combinatorial number of subnets that themselves can be viewed as ordinary feedforward networks. For an MLNN with M hidden nodes, N output nodes, and K links for each connection, its overall connection status is represented as an MN dimensional region with K^MN sampling points in the weight space. Thus the multi-link structure defines a sampling grid over this region.A region-based search algorithm has been developed that, for problems of a complex nature, offers a better chance in locating a global minimum than the traditional backpropagation algorithm.

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Zhengping Lang and Zhen Zhang "Stochastic search algorithm-based multilink neural network", Proc. SPIE 1966, Science of Artificial Neural Networks II, (19 August 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.152647

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