{"title":"Robust ART-2 neural network learning framework","authors":"Jiang-Bo Yin, Hongbin Shen","doi":"10.1109/ICMIC.2011.5973713","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The ART-2 network is a typical adaptive resonance theory based neural network approach for clustering purpose and has been successfully used in many fields. However, one of the fatal shortcomings of traditional ART-2 is that its final results heavily depend on a pre-defined fixed vigilance threshold parameter, which makes it infeasible to be applied in different complicated applications. Another disadvantage of traditional ART-2 method is that the number of categories in the network will increase all the time with the continuous input. Considering these points, an improved algorithm of ART-2 has been presented in this paper called the Robust ART-2. We first systematically analyze the dynamic changes of the optimal vigilance threshold with the succession inputs and propose a new adaptive method to make the network itself can automatically choose the optimal threshold in various situations. Then we introduce a constraint parameter to confine the scale of ART-2 network by limiting the maximal number of categories of network. Simulation experiments including artificial and benchmark data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm.","PeriodicalId":210380,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIC.2011.5973713","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The ART-2 network is a typical adaptive resonance theory based neural network approach for clustering purpose and has been successfully used in many fields. However, one of the fatal shortcomings of traditional ART-2 is that its final results heavily depend on a pre-defined fixed vigilance threshold parameter, which makes it infeasible to be applied in different complicated applications. Another disadvantage of traditional ART-2 method is that the number of categories in the network will increase all the time with the continuous input. Considering these points, an improved algorithm of ART-2 has been presented in this paper called the Robust ART-2. We first systematically analyze the dynamic changes of the optimal vigilance threshold with the succession inputs and propose a new adaptive method to make the network itself can automatically choose the optimal threshold in various situations. Then we introduce a constraint parameter to confine the scale of ART-2 network by limiting the maximal number of categories of network. Simulation experiments including artificial and benchmark data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm.