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Committee C-Mantec: A Probabilistic Constructive Neural Network

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C-Mantec is a recently introduced constructive algorithm that generates compact neural architectures with good generalization abilities. Nevertheless, it produces a discrete output value and this might be a drawback in certain situations. We propose in this work two approaches in order to obtain a continuous output network such as the output can be interpreted as the probability of a given pattern to belong to one of the output classes. The CC-Mantec approach utilizes a committee strategy and the results obtained both with the XOR Boolean function and with a set of benchmark functions shows the suitability of the approach, as an improvement over the standard C-Mantec algorithm is obtained in almost all cases.

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Subirats, J.L., Luque-Baena, R.M., Urda, D., Ortega-Zamorano, F., Jerez, J.M., Franco, L. (2013). Committee C-Mantec: A Probabilistic Constructive Neural Network. In: Rojas, I., Joya, G., Gabestany, J. (eds) Advances in Computational Intelligence. IWANN 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7902. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38679-4_33

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