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http://dx.doi.org/10.5391/JKIIS.2004.14.7.847

Nonlinear Approximations Using Modified Mixture Density Networks  

Cho, Won-Hee (고려대학교 제어계측공학과)
Park, Joo-Young (고려대학교 제어계측공학과)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems / v.14, no.7, 2004 , pp. 847-851 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the original mixture density network(MDN), which was introduced by Bishop and Nabney, the parameters of the conditional probability density function are represented by the output vector of a single multi-layer perceptron. Among the recent modification of the MDNs, there is the so-called modified mixture density network, in which each of the priors, conditional means, and covariances is represented via an independent multi-layer perceptron. In this paper, we consider a further simplification of the modified MDN, in which the conditional means are linear with respect to the input variable together with the development of the MATLAB program for the simplification. In this paper, we first briefly review the original mixture density network, then we also review the modified mixture density network in which independent multi-layer perceptrons play an important role in the learning for the parameters of the conditional probability, and finally present a further modification so that the conditional means are linear in the input. The applicability of the presented method is shown via an illustrative simulation example.
Keywords
gaussian mixture model; mixture density network; nonlinear approximation; multi-layer perceptron;
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