Re: recording activation of hidden units

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Tue, 02 Sep 1997 08:05:25 +1200

Manfred Weber writes:
 > hello Ryurick, what could be the background to use the activation of a hidden
 > unit for net input? ciao manfred

The use of ANN for dimensionality reduction preprocessing (feature extraction).

Suppose that you use an identity ANN with a bottleneck on hidden layers.
Then, after training you take the output of hidden layers as input for
your processing ANN.

Cheers,
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