University of Cambridge Programme for Industry Neural Networks Summer School Bayesian Methods for Neural Networks: Theory and Applications
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چکیده
Neural networks are parameterized non-linear models used for empirical regression and classi-cation modelling. Their exibility makes them able to discover more general relationships in data than traditional statistical models. Bayesian probability theory provides a unifying framework for data modeling which ooers several beneets. First, the overrtting problem can be solved by using Bayesian methods to control model complexity. Bayesian model comparison can be used for example to optimize weight decay rates, and to infer automatically which are the relevant input variables for a problem. Second, probabilistic modelling handles uncertainty in a natural manner. There is a unique prescription, marginalization,for incorporating uncertainty about parameters into predictions; this procedure yields better predictions. Third, we can deene more sophisticated probabilistic models which are able to extract more information from data. I will discuss the practical application of these methods to a problem involving the prediction of a series of building energy loads from a series of environmental variables. I will also discuss the application of Bayesian methods to neural network classiiers. Finally I will describe the implementation of a probabilistic regression model in BUGS. BUGS is a program that carries out Bayesian inference on statistical problems using a simulation technique known as Gibbs sampling.
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