Geometrical Selection of Important Inputs with Feedforward Neural Networks [chapter]

F. Rossi
1998 Artificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms  
In this paper, we introduce a method that allows to evaluate efficiently the "importance" of each coordinate of the input vector of a neural network. This measurement can be used to obtain informations about the studied data. It can also be used to suppress irrelevant inputs in order to speed up the classification process conducted by the network.
doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-6492-1_118 dblp:conf/icannga/Rossi97 fatcat:qz22kl4cwzdttch6f5rqymz23m