Title
An Accurate Measure for Multilayer Perceptron Tolerance to Weight Deviations
Abstract
The inherent fault tolerance of artificial neuralnetworks (ANNs) is usually assumed, but severalauthors have claimed that ANNs are not always faulttolerant and have demonstrated the need to evaluatetheir robustness by quantitative measures. For thispurpose, various alternatives have been proposed. Inthis paper we show the direct relation between themean square error (MSE) and the statisticalsensitivity to weight deviations, defining a measureof tolerance based on statistical sentitivity that wehave called Mean Square Sensitivity (MSS); this allowsus to predict accurately the degradation of the MSEwhen the weight values change and so constitutes auseful parameter for choosing between differentconfigurations of MLPs. The experimental resultsobtained for different MLPs are shown and demonstratethe validity of our model.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1023/A:1018733418248
Neural Processing Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
mean square error degradation,multilayer perceptron,fault tolerance,statistical sensitivity
Mean square,Pattern recognition,Mean squared error,Robustness (computer science),Multilayer perceptron,Fault tolerance,Artificial intelligence,Statistical sensitivity,Artificial neural network,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
2
1573-773X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.74
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jose L. Bernier1361.66
J. Ortega294073.05
M. M. Rodrì‘guez3120.74
I. Rojas41750143.09
A. Prieto541925.23