Academic Articles & Research Papers

Learning and Evolution in Neural Networks

This article describes simulations on populations of neural networks that both evolve at the population level and learn at the individual level. Unlike other simulations, the evolutionary task (finding food in the environment) and the learn...

Neural networks: an introduction

In this chapter, neural networks are discussed. The present field of neural networks links a number of closely related areas, such as parallel distributed processing, connectionism and neural computing, these being brought together with the...

Introduction to artificial neural networks

The coupling of computer science and theoretical bases such as nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory allows the creation of 'intelligent' agents, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs), able to adapt themselves dynamically to problems of h...

Theory of the backpropagation neural network

The author presents a survey of the basic theory of the backpropagation neural network architecture covering architectural design, performance measurement, function approximation capability, and learning. The survey includes previously know...

Modular learning in neural networks

In the development of large-scale knowledge networks much recent progress has been inspired by connections to neurobiology. An important component of any neural network is an accompanying learning algorithm. Such an algorithm, to be biologi...

Discovering Physical Concepts with Neural Networks

Despite the success of neural networks at solving concrete physics problems, their use as a general-purpose tool for scientific discovery is still in its infancy. Here, we approach this problem by modeling a neural network architecture afte...

Neural Networks in Applied Statistics

Artificial neural networks are computer algorithms or computer programs derived in part from attempts to model the activity of nerve cells. They have been applied to pattern recognition, classification, and optimization problems in the phys...

Understanding Neural Networks as Statistical Tools

Neural networks have received a great deal of attention over the last few years. They are being used in the areas of prediction and classification, areas where regression models and other related statistical techniques have traditionally be...

Neural networks in the capital markets

PART ONE: NEURAL NETWORKS: Introduction Design Considerations Methods for Optimal Network Design Data Modelling Considerations Testing Strategies and Metrics PART TWO: EQUITY APPLICATIONS: Modelling Stock Returns in the Framework of APT: A ...

Introduction to artificial neural networks

A neural network is a data processing system consisting of a large number of simple, highly interconnected processing elements in an architecture inspired by the structure of the cerebral cortex portion of the brain. Hence, neural networks ...

Neural Networks for Chemical Engineers

Part 1 Theoretical issues: an introduction to artificial neural networks, D.T. Pham unsupervised neural learning, E. Oja back-propagation and its variations, D. Tsaptsinos the general approximation problem for feed-forward neural networks, ...

Intriguing properties of neural networks

Deep neural networks are highly expressive models that have recently achieved state of the art performance on speech and visual recognition tasks. While their expressiveness is the reason they succeed, it also causes them to learn uninterpr...

Quantized Neural Networks: Training Neural Networks with Low Precision Weights and Activations

We introduce a method to train Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) --- neural networks with extremely low precision (e.g., 1-bit) weights and activations, at run-time. At train-time the quantized weights and activations are used for computing ...

A neural network model for survival data

Neural networks have received considerable attention recently, mostly by non-statisticians. They are considered by many to be very promising tools for classification and prediction. In this paper we present an approach to modelling censored...

Neural Networks

Neural Networks, Second Edition provides a complete introduction to neural networks. It describes what they are, what they can do, and how they do it. While some scientific background is assumed, the reader is not expected to have any prior...

Applications of Neural Networks in Electromagnetics

From the Book: Since the early 1990s, a plethora of electromagnetic problems have been tackled using neural networks, some more successfully than others. Because neural networks and electromagnetics are two different scientific fields, not...

Neural Networks for Identification, Prediction and Control

Bankruptcy prediction using neural networks

Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning

This volume, which is also available online from http://www.machinelearning.org, contains the papers accepted for presentation at ICML-2005, the 22nd lnternational Conference on Machine Learning, which was held at the University of Bonn in ...

On Formalizing Fairness in Prediction with Machine Learning

Machine learning algorithms for prediction are increasingly being used in critical decisions affecting human lives. Various fairness formalizations, with no firm consensus yet, are employed to prevent such algorithms from systematically dis...