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Accession Number:
ADA235581
Title:
Feature Extraction Using an Unsupervised Neural Network
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.
Corporate Author:
BROWN UNIV PROVIDENCE RI CENTER FOR NEURAL SCIENCE
Report Date:
1991-05-03
Pagination or Media Count:
11.0
Abstract:
A novel unsupervised neural network for dimensionality reduction which seeks directions emphasizing distinguishing features in the data is presented. A statistical framework for the parameter estimation problem associated with this neural network is given and its connection to exploratory projection pursuit methods is established. The network is shown to minimize a loss function projection index over a set of parameters, yielding an optimal decision rule under some norm. A specific projection index that favors directions possessing multimodality is presented. This leads to a similar form to the synaptic modification equations governing learning in Bienenstock, Cooper, and Munro BCM neurons 1982. The importance of a dimensionality reduction principle based solely on distinguishing features, is demonstrated using a linguistically motivated phoneme recognition experiment, and compared with feature extraction using principal components and back propagation network.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE