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Elizondo, D. and Fiesler, E., 1997. A survey of partially connected neural networks. 

Artificial Neural Networks. An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) consists of a network of nodes (processing elements) connected via adjustable weights [Zurada, 1992]. The weights can be adjusted so that a network learns a mapping represented by a set of example input/output pairs. An ANN can in theory reproduce any continuous function 95 —>31 °, where n and m are numbers of input and output nodes. In NDT neural networks are usually used as classifiers... 

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are information processing imits which process information in a way that is motivated by the functionality of the biological nervous system. Just as the brain consists of neurons which are connected with one another, an ANN comprises interrelated artificial neurons. The neurons work together to solve a given problem. 

Neural networks have been proposed as an alternative way to generate quantitative structure-activity relationships [Andrea and Kalayeh 1991]. A commonly used type of neural net contains layers of units with connections between all pairs of units in adjacent layers (Figure 12.38). Each unit is in a state represented by a real value between 0 and 1. The state of a unit is determined by the states of the units in the previous layer to which it is connected and the strengths of the weights on these connections. A neural net must first be trained to perform the desired task. To do this, the network is presented with a... 

The structure of a neural network forms the basis for information storage and governs the learning process. The type of neural network used in this work is known as a feed-forward network the information flows only in the forward direction, i.e., from input to output in the testing mode. A general structure of a feed-forward network is shown in Fig. I. Connections are made be-... 

A sigmoid (s-shaped) is a continuous function that has a derivative at all points and is a monotonically increasing function. Here 5,p is the transformed output asymptotic to 0 < 5/,p I and w,.p is the summed total of the inputs (- 00 < Ui p < -I- 00) for pattern p. Hence, when the neural network is presented with a set of input data, each neuron sums up all the inputs modified by the corresponding connection weights and applies the transfer function to the summed total. This process is repeated until the network outputs are obtained. 

In a standard back-propagation scheme, updating the weights is done iteratively. The weights for each connection are initially randomized when the neural network undergoes training. Then the error between the target output and the network predicted output are back-propa-... 

In this approach, connectivity indices were used as the principle descriptor of the topology of the repeat unit of a polymer. The connectivity indices of various polymers were first correlated directly with the experimental data for six different physical properties. The six properties were Van der Waals volume (Vw), molar volume (V), heat capacity (Cp), solubility parameter (5), glass transition temperature Tfj, and cohesive energies ( coh) for the 45 different polymers. Available data were used to establish the dependence of these properties on the topological indices. All the experimental data for these properties were trained simultaneously in the proposed neural network model in order to develop an overall cause-effect relationship for all six properties. 

A neural network consists of many neurons organized into a structure called the network architecture. Although there are many possible network architectures, one of the most popular and successful is the multilayer perceptron (MLP) network. This consists of identical neurons all interconnected and organized in layers, with those in one layer connected to those in the next layer so that the outputs in one layer become the inputs in the subsequent... 

Neural networks are characterized by their weights, wXp and their respective sums are given by the weight matrixes, between the diverse layers. The weights represent the strength of the directed connection between neurons i and j see Fig. 6.19. 

In the human brain, it is the combined efforts of many neurons acting in concert that creates complex behavior this is mirrored in the structure of an ANN, in which many simple software processing units work cooperatively. It is not just these artificial units that are fundamental to the operation of ANNs so, too, are the connections between them. Consequently, artificial neural networks are often referred to as connectionist models. 

Indeed, if the problem is simple enough that the connection weights can be found by a few moments work with pencil and paper, there are other computational tools that would be more appropriate than neural networks. It is in more complex problems, in which the relationships that exist between data points are unknown so that it is not possible to determine the connection weights by hand, that an ANN comes into its own. The ANN must then discover the connection weights for itself through a process of supervised learning. 

The ability of an ANN to learn is its greatest asset. When, as is usually the case, we cannot determine the connection weights by hand, the neural network can do the job itself. In an iterative process, the network is shown a sample pattern, such as the X, Y coordinates of a point, and uses the pattern to calculate its output it then compares its own output with the correct output for the sample pattern, and, unless its output is perfect, makes small adjustments to the connection weights to improve its performance. The training process is shown in Figure 2.13. 

The lack of a recipe for adjusting the weights of connections into hidden nodes brought research in neural networks to a virtual standstill until the publication by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams2 of a technique now known as backpropagation (BP). This offered a way out of the difficulty. 

Overfitting is a potentially serious problem in neural networks. It is tackled in two ways (1) by continually monitoring the quality of training as it occurs using a test set, and (2) by ensuring that the geometry of the network (its size and the way the nodes are connected) is appropriate for the size of the dataset. 

A feedforward neural network brings together several of these little processors in a layered structure (Figure 9). The network in Figure 9 is fully connected, which means that every neuron in one layer is connected to every neuron in the next layer. The first layer actually does no processing it merely distributes the inputs to a hidden layer of neurons. These neurons process the input, and then pass the result of their computation on to the output layer. If there is a second hidden layer, the process is repeated until the output layer is reached. 

We recall that AI tools need a memory—where is it in the neural network There is an additional feature of the network to which we have not yet been introduced. The signal output by a neuron in one layer is multiplied by a connection weight (Figure 10) before being passed to the next neuron, and it is these connection weights that form the memory of the network. 

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