AN INCREMENTAL LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK FOR PATTERN CLASSIFICATION

Author(s):  
CHENG-AN HUNG ◽  
SHENG-FUU LIN

A neural network architecture that incorporates a supervised mechanism into a fuzzy adaptive Hamming net (FAHN) is presented. The FAHN constructs hyper-rectangles that represent template weights in an unsupervised learning paradigm. Learning in the FAHN consists of creating and adjusting hyper-rectangles in feature space. By aggregating multiple hyper-rectangles into a single class, we can build a classifier, to be henceforth termed as a supervised fuzzy adaptive Hamming net (SFAHN), that discriminates between nonconvex and even discontinuous classes. The SFAHN can operate at a fast-learning rate in online (incremental) or offline (batch) applications, without becoming unstable. The performance of the SFAHN is tested on the Fisher iris data and on an online character recognition problem.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6845
Author(s):  
Abu Sayeed ◽  
Jungpil Shin ◽  
Md. Al Mehedi Hasan ◽  
Azmain Yakin Srizon ◽  
Md. Mehedi Hasan

As it is the seventh most-spoken language and fifth most-spoken native language in the world, the domain of Bengali handwritten character recognition has fascinated researchers for decades. Although other popular languages i.e., English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, etc. have received many contributions in the area of handwritten character recognition, Bengali has not received many noteworthy contributions in this domain because of the complex curvatures and similar writing fashions of Bengali characters. Previously, studies were conducted by using different approaches based on traditional learning, and deep learning. In this research, we proposed a low-cost novel convolutional neural network architecture for the recognition of Bengali characters with only 2.24 to 2.43 million parameters based on the number of output classes. We considered 8 different formations of CMATERdb datasets based on previous studies for the training phase. With experimental analysis, we showed that our proposed system outperformed previous works by a noteworthy margin for all 8 datasets. Moreover, we tested our trained models on other available Bengali characters datasets such as Ekush, BanglaLekha, and NumtaDB datasets. Our proposed architecture achieved 96–99% overall accuracies for these datasets as well. We believe our contributions will be beneficial for developing an automated high-performance recognition tool for Bengali handwritten characters.


1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Georgiopoulos ◽  
Gregory L. Heileman ◽  
Juxin Huang

We consider the ART1 neural network architecture. It is shown that in the fast learning case, an ART1 network that is repeatedly presented with an arbitrary list of binary input patterns, self-stabilizes the recognition code of every size-l pattern in at most l list presentations.


1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigetoshi Shiotani ◽  
Toshio Fukuda ◽  
Takanori Shibata

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Oleksii VASYLIEV ◽  

The problem of applying neural networks to calculate ratings used in banking in the decision-making process on granting or not granting loans to borrowers is considered. The task is to determine the rating function of the borrower based on a set of statistical data on the effectiveness of loans provided by the bank. When constructing a regression model to calculate the rating function, it is necessary to know its general form. If so, the task is to calculate the parameters that are included in the expression for the rating function. In contrast to this approach, in the case of using neural networks, there is no need to specify the general form for the rating function. Instead, certain neural network architecture is chosen and parameters are calculated for it on the basis of statistical data. Importantly, the same neural network architecture can be used to process different sets of statistical data. The disadvantages of using neural networks include the need to calculate a large number of parameters. There is also no universal algorithm that would determine the optimal neural network architecture. As an example of the use of neural networks to determine the borrower's rating, a model system is considered, in which the borrower's rating is determined by a known non-analytical rating function. A neural network with two inner layers, which contain, respectively, three and two neurons and have a sigmoid activation function, is used for modeling. It is shown that the use of the neural network allows restoring the borrower's rating function with quite acceptable accuracy.


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