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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2019-01-01

发表刊物：IEEE ACCESS

收录刊物：SCIE、Scopus

卷号：7

页面范围：5085-5094

ISSN号：2169-3536

关键字：Neural networks; multi-class classification problems; one-to-one approach; binary approach; accuracies

摘要：Considered in this short note is the design of output layer nodes of feedforward neural networks for solving multiple-class classification problems with r (r >= 3) classes of samples. The common and conventional setting of the output layer called "one-to-one approach" in this paper, is as follows: The output layer contains r output nodes corresponding to the r classes. And for an input sample of the i-th class (1 <= i <= r), the ideal output is 1 for the i-th output node, and 0 for all the other output nodes. We propose in this paper a new "binary approach": Suppose 2(q -1) < r <= 2(q) with q >= 2, then we let the output layer contain q output nodes, and let the ideal outputs for the r classes be designed in a binary manner. This idea of binary output is also applied for other classifiers, such as support vector machines and associative pulsing neural networks. Numerical simulations are carried out on eight real-world data sets, showing that our binary approach performs as well as, but uses less output nodes and hidden-output weights than, the traditional one-to-one approach.