The course will be articulated in three days, comprising 3, 3 and 4
hours of class lectures, respectively. More details can be found in the attached sheet.
- Introduction to artificial neural networks. Main
characteristics of neural networks. Artificial neuron model. Activation functions.
Types of neural networks. Supervised learning. Delta rule. Convergence of the
delta rule. Learning rate. Local minima. Batch and online learning. Momentum. Perceptron.
Perceptron learning rule. The XOR problem. Hidden layers. Multilayer networks. Multilayer
perceptron. Error backpropagation. The backpropagation algorithm. (3h)
- Creation of the training set: analysis of the
data, selection of variables, data preprocessing, outliers, missing data,
non-numeric data, data normalization. Stopping conditions of neural network
training. Overtraining. Early stopping. Train, test and validation sets.
Network's size. Unbalanced data sets. Examples of applications. Radial
functions. Introduction to RBF networks. Learning strategies for RBF networks.
Comparison of RBF networks and Multilayer Perceptrons. Unsupervised learning. Competitive
networks. Self-organizing maps. Examples of applications. (3h)
- Introduction to deep learning. Convolutional
neural networks. (2h)
- Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. Crossover and mutation. Fitness
function. Selection for recombination. Selection for replacement and survival.
Binary encoding. Real-valued encoding. Examples of applications. (2h)
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