Title
Simulation Study on the Application of the Generalized Entropy Concept in Artificial Neural Networks.
Abstract
Artificial neural networks are currently one of the most commonly used classifiers and over the recent years they have been successfully used in many practical applications, including banking and finance, health and medicine, engineering and manufacturing. A large number of error functions have been proposed in the literature to achieve a better predictive power. However, only a few works employ Tsallis statistics, although the method itself has been successfully applied in other machine learning techniques. This paper undertakes the effort to examine the q-generalized function based on Tsallis statistics as an alternative error measure in neural networks. In order to validate different performance aspects of the proposed function and to enable identification of its strengths and weaknesses the extensive simulation was prepared based on the artificial benchmarking dataset. The results indicate that Tsallis entropy error function can be successfully introduced in the neural networks yielding satisfactory results and handling with class imbalance, noise in data or use of non-informative predictors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/e20040249
ENTROPY
Keywords
Field
DocType
artificial neural network,simulation study,generalized entropy
Error function,Mathematical optimization,Predictive power,Tsallis entropy,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Strengths and weaknesses,Tsallis statistics,Mathematics,Machine learning,Benchmarking
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
4
1099-4300
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Krzysztof Gajowniczek1196.14
Arkadiusz Orłowski22011.73
Tomasz Zabkowski33211.28