Determining Optimal Multi-layer Perceptron Structure Using Linear Regression

摘要

This paper presents a novel method to determine the optimal Multilayer Perceptron structure using Linear Regression. Starting from clustering the dataset used to train a neural network it is possible to define Multiple Linear Regression models to determine the architecture of a neural network. This method work unsupervised unlike other methods and more flexible with different datasets types. The proposed method adapt to the complexity of training datasets to provide the best results regardless of the size and type of dataset. Clustering algorithm used to impose a specific analysis of data used to train the network such us determining the distance measure, normalization and clustering technique suitable with the type of training dataset used.