Extracting rules from neural networks by pruning and hidden-unit splitting

Neural Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 205-225

  Setiono, Rudy ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EXON; INTRON; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; INTRONS; LEARNING; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND;

EID: 0030631792     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1997.9.1.205     Document Type: Article

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