Diverse Evolutionary Neural Networks Based on Information Theory
Kyung-Joong Kim1
and Sung-Bae Cho1 
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Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Sudaemoon-ku, Seoul, 120-749, South Korea |
Abstract
There is no consensus on measuring distances between two different neural network architectures. Two folds of methods are
used for that purpose: Structural and behavioral distance measures. In this paper, we focus on the later one that compares
differences based on output responses given the same input. Usually neural network output can be interpreted as a probabilistic
function given the input signals if it is normalized to 1. Information theoretic distance measures are widely used to measure
distances between two probabilistic distributions. In the framework of evolving diverse neural networks, we adopted information-theoretic
distance measures to improve its performance. Experimental results on UCI benchmark dataset show the promising possibility
of the approach.
Keywords Information Theory - Neural Network Distance - Fitness Sharing - Evolutionary Neural Networks - Ensemble
This research was supported by Brain Science and Engineering Research Program sponsored by Korean Ministry of Commerce, Industry
and Energy.
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