Supervised learning vector quantization for projecting missing weights of hierarchical neural networks

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 799-808

  Chen, Cin Ru ^a   Tsai, Liang Ting ^b   Yang, Chih Chien ^b  

^a TA HWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Large scale data; Learning vector quantization; Missing weights; Neural network; Simulation study; Stratified structure

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL FACTORS; HIERARCHICAL NEURAL NETWORKS; LARGE SCALE DATA; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION; MISSING RATE; NEURAL NETWORK SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION STUDIES; SIMULATION STUDIES; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLE; STRATIFIED STRUCTURE;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; VECTORS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77955168966     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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