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The Bayesian machine learning is a promising tool for the evaluation of nuclear fission data but its potential capability has not been fully realized. We attempt to optimize the performances of the multilayer Bayesian neural networks for…
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We demonstrate that Bayesian machine learning can be used to treat the vast amount of experimental fission data which are noisy, incomplete, discrepant, and correlated. As an example, the two-dimensional cumulative fission yields (CFY) of…
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