Princess Nora University Artificial Intelligence

1. Princess Nora UniversityArtificial Intelligence Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

2. Neural Network

12. Perceptron

29. Artificial Neural Networks • When using ANN, we have to define: • Artificial Neuron Model • ANN Architecture • Learning mode

30. Developing Intelligent Program Systems Machine Learning : Neural Nets Neural nets can be used to answer the following: • Pattern recognition: Does that image contain a face? • Classification problems: Is this cell defective? • Prediction: Given these symptoms, the patient has disease X • Forecasting: predicting behavior of stock market • Handwriting: is character recognized?

31. Artificial Neural NetworkLearning paradigms • Supervised learning: • Teacher presents ANN input-output pairs, • ANN weights adjusted according to error • Classification • Control • Function approximation • Associative memory • Unsupervised learning: • no teacher • Clustering

32. ANN capabilities • Learning • Approximate reasoning • Generalisation capability • Noise filtering • Parallel processing • Distributed knowledge base • Fault tolerance

33. Main Problems with ANN • Contrary to Expert sytems, with ANN the Knowledge base is not transparent (black box) • Learning sometimes difficult/slow • Limited storage capability

34. When to use ANNs? • Input is high-dimensional discrete or real-valued (e.g. raw sensor input). • Inputs can be highly correlated or independent. • Output is discrete or real valued • Output is a vector of values • Possibly noisy data. Data may contain errors • Form of target function is unknown • Long training time are acceptable • Fast evaluation of target function is required • Human readability of learned target function is unimportant ⇒ ANN is much like a black-box