A pruning schema is applied to Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) gender classi£er. MLP uses eigenvector coef£cients of the face space created by Principal Component Analysis (PCA). We show that pruning improves the initial MLP performance by preserving the most effective input while eliminating most of the units and connections. Pruning is also used as a tool to monitor which eigenvectors contribute...

In tandem systems, the outputs of multi-layer perceptron (MLP) classifiers have been successfully used as features for HMM-based automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we propose a data-driven clustered hierarchical tandem system that yields improved performance on a large-vocabulary broadcast news transcription task. The complicated global learning for a large monolithic MLP classifier i...

In this paper, the application of neural networks to study the design of short-term load forecasting (STLF) Systems for Illam state located in west of Iran was explored. One important architecture of neural networks named Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) to model STLF systems was used. Our study based on MLP was trained and tested using three years (2004-2006) data. The results show that MLP networ...

Multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) make powerful classifiers that may provide superior performance compared with other classifiers, but are often criticized for the number of free parameters. Most commonly, parameters are set with the help of either a validation set or crossvalidation techniques, but there is no guarantee that a pseudo-test set is representative. Further difficulties with MLPs inclu...

This article, presents some results obtained in the face recognition using Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) Neural Networks for classification. Two designs are studied: single network model and multi networks model. The input images are resized, and converted to a vector of pixels before they are applied to the input of the MLP Network. The back propagation algorithm is used to train the MLP netwo...

This paper proposes the use of new target vectors for MLP learning in EEG signal classification. A large Euclidean distance provided by orthogonal bipolar vectors as new target ones is explored to improve the learning and generalization abilities of MLPs. The data set consisted of EEG signals captured from normal individuals and individuals under brain-death protocol. Experimental results are r...

It is difficult to train a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) when there are only a few labeled samples available. However, by pretraining an MLP with vast amount of unlabeled samples available, we may achieve better generalization performance. Schulz et al. (2012) showed that it is possible to pretrain an MLP in a less greedy way by utilizing the two-layer contractive encodings, however, with a cost...

Multilayer perceptron network (MLP), FIR neural network and Elman neural network were compared in four different time series prediction tasks. Time series include load in an electric network series, fluctuations in a far-infrared laser series, numerically generated series and behaviour of sunspots series. FIR neural network was trained with temporal backpropagation learning algorithm. Results s...

The purpose of this study is to develop subject categorization methods for educational resources using multilayer perceptron (MLP) and to examine the performance of the test documents as an application system. To examine the performance two methods are examined: Latent Semantic Indexing method (LSI) and a three layer feedforward network as a simple MLP. The document vectors were estimated by th...

This article describes a new approach to the automated construction of a distributed neural classifier. The methodology is based upon supervised hierarchical clustering which enables one to determine reliable regions in the representation space. The proposed methodology proceeds by associating each of these regions with a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). Each MLP has to recognise elements inside i...