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Classified as unknown: A novel Bayesian neural network

Machine Learning 2023-02-01 v1 Applications

Abstract

We establish estimations for the parameters of the output distribution for the softmax activation function using the probit function. As an application, we develop a new efficient Bayesian learning algorithm for fully connected neural networks, where training and predictions are performed within the Bayesian inference framework in closed-form. This approach allows sequential learning and requires no computationally expensive gradient calculation and Monte Carlo sampling. Our work generalizes the Bayesian algorithm for a single perceptron for binary classification in \cite{H} to multi-layer perceptrons for multi-class classification.

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@article{arxiv.2301.13401,
  title  = {Classified as unknown: A novel Bayesian neural network},
  author = {Tianbo Yang and Tianshuo Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13401},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, 12 figures

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