A pruning algorithm for training neural network ensembles

Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 628-633

  Shahjahan, Md ^a   Akhand, M A H ^b   Murase, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b CHITTAGONG UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Classification; Decay; Ensemble network; Overfitting; Pruning

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISEASES; MACHINE LEARNING;

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; DECAY; ENSEMBLE NETWORKS; GENERALIZATION ABILITY; GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE; NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLES; OVERFITTING; PRUNING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77952635677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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