A modified version of a formal pruning algorithm based on local relative variance analysis

International Symposium on Control, Communications and Signal Processing, ISCCSP

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 849-852

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feedforward Artificial Neural Network (FANN); Parameter Variance Nullity (PVN); Pruning Algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROLOGY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURGERY;

FEEDFORWARD ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (FANN); PARAMETER VARIANCE NULLITY (PVN); PRUNING ALGORITHMS;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 3042552333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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