According to the statistical interpretation of quantum theory, quantum computers form a distinguished class of probabilistic machines (PMs) by encoding n qubits in 2n pbits. This raises the possibility of a large-scale quantum computing using PMs, especially with neural networks which have the innate capability for probabilistic information processing. Restricting ourselves to a particular mode...

Neural network learning is the main essence of ANN. There are many problems associated with the multiple local minima in neural networks. Global optimization methods are capable of finding global optimal solution. In this paper we investigate and present a comparative study for the effects of probabilistic and deterministic global search method for artificial neural network using fully connecte...

Neural networks are a popular tool in the area of pattern recognition. However, since a very large number of neural network architectures exist, it has not been established which one is the most efficient. In this paper we compare the performance of three neural network architectures: Kohonen’s self-organizing network, probabilistic neural network, and a modified backpropagation applied to a si...

This article seeks to establish a rapprochement between explicitly Bayesian models of contextual effects in perception and neural network models of such effects, particularly the connectionist interactive activation (IA) model of perception. The article is in part an historical review and in part a tutorial, reviewing the probabilistic Bayesian approach to understanding perception and how it ma...

Defects in modules of software systems is a major problem in software development. There are a variety of data mining techniques used to predict software defects such as regression, association rules, clustering, and classification. This paper is concerned with classification based software defect prediction. This paper investigates the effectiveness of using a radial basis function neural netw...

Nowadays, online social networks are considered as one of the most important emerging phenomena of human societies. In these networks, prediction of link by relying on the knowledge existing of the interaction between network actors provides an estimation of the probability of creation of a new relationship in future. A wide range of applications can be found for link prediction such as electro...

conclusions as we can see the ann outputs values are very close to actual cu concentration, so indicating that predicted values are accurate and the network design is proper and the input variables well suitable for the prediction of cu concentration. background access to safe drinking water is one of the basic human rights and essential for healthy life. concerns about the effects of copper on...

in recent years, researches on reinforcement learning (rl) have focused on bridging the gap between adaptive optimal control and bio-inspired learning techniques. neural network reinforcement learning (nnrl) is among the most popular algorithms in the rl framework. the advantage of using neural networks enables the rl to search for optimal policies more efficiently in several real-life applicat...

abstract evapotranspiration as one of the important elements in agriculture has a considerable role in water resource management. therefore, using a more exact estimation method is an essential step of agricultural development, especially in arid semi-arid area. in this research, in order to exact estimate of garlic evapotranspiration using lysimeteric data, an artificial neural network (ann) m...