A new feedforward neural network pruning algorithm: SSM-Iterative pruning (SSMIP)

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 342-347

  Fnaiech, Nader ^a   Fnaiech, Farhat ^a   Cheriet, Mohamed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b Laboratoire d'Imagerie de Vision et d'Intelligence Artificielle (LIVIA)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feedforward neural networks; Iterative pruning methods (IP); Network pruning; Pattern recognition; Statistical Stepwise Method (SSM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ITERATIVE PRUNING METHODS;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0036971652     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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