nguyen_widrow_init.hpp File Reference

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Classes
class	InitTraits< NguyenWidrowInitialization >
	Initialization traits of the Nguyen-Widrow initialization rule. More...
class	NguyenWidrowInitialization
	This class is used to initialize the weight matrix with the Nguyen-Widrow method. More...

Namespaces
	mlpack
	Linear algebra utility functions, generally performed on matrices or vectors.
	mlpack::ann
	Artificial Neural Network.

Detailed Description

Author

Marcus Edel

Definition and implementation of the Nguyen-Widrow method. This initialization rule initialize the weights so that the active regions of the neurons are approximately evenly distributed over the input space.

For more information, see the following paper.

@inproceedings{NguyenIJCNN1990,
  title={Improving the learning speed of 2-layer neural networks by choosing
  initial values of the adaptive weights},
  booktitle={Neural Networks, 1990., 1990 IJCNN International Joint
  Conference on},
  year={1990}
}

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Definition in file nguyen_widrow_init.hpp.