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Neuron Digest   Thursday, 23 Jul 1992
                Volume 9 : Issue 39

Today's Topics:
             Administrivia - ND on vacation for over 3 weeks
                        NIPS 92 advance program?
                research post in cortical neural networks
                         NEURAL NETWORK WORKSHOP
                Call for Papers, Applications of AI (XI)
              IJCNN 92 Beijing Call For Papers *Extension*
               TR - Determining the Number of Hidden Units


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Subject: Administrivia - ND on vacation for over 3 weeks
From:    "N-D Moderator, Peter Marvit" <neuron@cattell.psych.upenn.edu>
Date:    Thu, 23 Jul 92 22:21:08 -0500

Greetings,

As promised, the Neuron Digest Moderator will be goig on vacation for
about three weeks starting immediately.  As a result, the Digest will
suspend publication with this issue, to resume sometime during the week
of 17 August.  Obviously, no email/correspondence will be answered during
this time.

This issue is a mix of items which seem somewhat time-sensitive.
Observant readers will note a lack of paper announcements recently.
There are some 80 papers in the queue, but they will have to wait until
after break at which time I will try to send out the backlog.

As always, thanks to you, faithful readers, for making this Digest
possible and spreading information about Artifical Neural Networks aroudn
the globe.

        -Peter Marvit
         N-D Moderator


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Subject: NIPS 92 advance program?
From:    Juan Carlos Guzman <guzman-juan@CS.YALE.EDU>
Date:    Fri, 17 Jul 92 14:18:37 -0500

Hi,

I would like to know  where I can find an advance schedule for NIPS'92
(Neural Information Processing Systems), to be held in Colorado,Nov 30--
Dec 4, this year.  Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

Juan Carlos Guzman.

[[ Editor's Note: I expect we'll see a reasonable version in this Digest
in September.  If someone has earlier information... -PM ]]

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Subject: research post in cortical neural networks
From:    Peter Foldiak <peter@psy.ox.ac.uk>
Date:    Tue, 21 Jul 92 12:15:54 +0000


                          UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
                  DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
                RESEARCH POST IN CORTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral or graduate position to work
on the operation of neuronal networks in the brain, with special
reference to cortical computation. The post available is for a
theoretician to perform analytic and/or simulation work collaboratively
with experimental neuroscientists on biologically realistic models of
computation in cortical structures such as the hippocampus and visual
cortex. The salary is on the RS1A scale, #12,129-#16,432, and is funded
by a three-year grant which provides for international collaboration.
Applications including the names of two referees, or enquiries, to Dr.
Edmund T. Rolls, University of Oxford, Department of Experimental
Psychology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, England (telephone
0865-271348, e-mail: erolls@vax.ox.ac.uk).  The University is an Equal
Opportunities Employer.


Peter Foldiak


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Subject: NEURAL NETWORK WORKSHOP
From:    anshu@lexington.rutgers.edu
Date:    Fri, 17 Jul 92 16:32:40 -0500


        
                             NEURAL NETWORK WORKSHOP
            
                               27-29 October, 1992
                        
                                  held at
                    
                   Ramada Renaissance Hotel, East Brunswick, NJ.

                                sponsored by

           The Aviation Security Research and Development Service of

                  The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

                                   and
                   
                      CAIP Center, Rutgers University, NJ

        

     Leaders in the field from academia, industry and government will
     present the state-of-the-art in Neural Network theory and Applications.
     There will be focussed sessions and panels on Neural Networks for vision,
     speech recognition, speaker identification, language acquisition, 
     hardware implementations and security systems. Special emphasis will
     be given on the future impact of Neural Networks on Aviation Technology.

     The workshop will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 27
     October and end at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. The $395 registration fee
     ($295 for participants from CAIP member organizations), includes the 
     cost of dinners and banquet. Proceedings of the workshop will be 
     published in book form.

     Registration is limited to 90 participants, including 30 invited 
     speakers and panelists. Individuals wishing to attend the workshop
     should register by September 27, 1992.

     For further information regarding registration, please contact

                        Ms. Sandra Epstein
                        email: sepstein@caip.rutgers.edu
                        Telephone: (908)932-4208
                        Fax: (908)932-4775
                        Telex: 65-2497820 mci

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Subject: Call for Papers, Applications of AI (XI)
From:    fayyad@ai-cyclops.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Usama Fayyad)
Date:    Tue, 21 Jul 92 18:11:39 -0800


 ______________________________________________________________________________

 CALL FOR PAPERS 9/14/92 -- CALL FOR PAPERS 9/14/92 -- CALL FOR PAPERS 9/14/92 
 ______________________________________________________________________________


  APPLICATIONS OF AI (XI): Knowledge-Based Systems in Aerospace & Industry
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                April 12-14, 1993
                                Marriott's Orlando World Center
                                Resort and Convention Center
                                Orlando, Florida,  U.S.A.

Sponsored by:   SPIE -- The Society for Optical Engineering
In cooperation with:    AAAI -- The American Association for Artificial 
                                Intelligence
                        AIAA -- The American Institute of Aeronautics
                                and Astronautics
                        IEEE Computer Society
                        IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

  The Eleventh Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference will be
help April 12-14 in Orlando, FL. We invite you to submit a paper by the
deadline of Sept. 14, 1992. Details of areas and deadlines given below.

Conference Co-Chairs:
        Usama M. Fayyad                         Ramasamy Uthurusamy        
        Jet Propulsion Lab                      General Motors Research Laboratories         
        California Institute of Technology    

Program Committee: 

Ray Bareiss, Northwestern University     
Steven Lytinen, The University of Michigan
James Bezdek, University of West Florida
Stephen C.Y. Lu, University of Illinois
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University
Ray Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Wray Buntine, NASA Ames Research Center
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro,  GTE Laboratories  
Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Lab
J. Ross Quinlan, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Tharam Dillon, La Trobe Univ., Australia
Ethan Scarl, Boeing Computer Services  
Richard Doyle, Jet Propulsion Lab
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin, Madison  
Doug Fisher, Vanderbilt University
Prakash Shenoy, University of Kansas 
Paul Fishwick, University of Florida
N.S. Sridharan, Intel Corporation
David Franke, MCC
Evangelos Simoudis, Lockheed Aerospace 
Ashok Goel, Georgia Tech.
Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University 
Larry Hall, University of South Florida
Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University   
Yumi Iwasaki, Stanford University
R. Zurawsky, Swinburne Inst. of Tech., Australia
Ramesh Jain, The University of Michigan

   
 This year we will focus on techniques and applications that deal with
actual industrial and aerospace applications of AI, machine learning, and
reasoning systems.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Machine Learning 
2. Industrial and Aerospace Applications 
3. Diagnostic Systems
4. Knowledge Acquisition and Refinement 
5. Knowledge Based Systems: Verification and Validation 
6. Manufacturing Systems 
7. Case-Based Reasoning  
8. Functional Reasoning 
9. Model-Based and Qualitative Reasoning 
10. Multilevel and Integrated Reasoning Systems
11. Planning and Scheduling 
12. Design 
13. Training and Tutoring Systems 
14. Intelligent Interfaces and Natural Language Processing
15. Intelligent Database Systems
16. Parallel Architectures

In addition there will be 2-3 plenary sessions, and one or more panel
discussions.  We also solicit suggestions for special sessions (e.g.,
Case-Based Tutoring, Reactive Planning in Space Missions).  A one-page
description of such a suggestion should be sent to the Conference Chairs,
who will then forward it to appropriate members of the Program Committee
for evaluation.  Selection will be based on how well the topic relates to
the general theme of the conference, and the level of interest it is
likely to generate.
 
To submit a paper, send four copies of a complete paper not exceeding 10
pages single-spaced (approx. 5000 words) including figures and
bibliography by September 14, 1992 to:
        
                 Applications of AI XI: KBS 
                 SPIE, P.O. Box 10
                 1000 20th Street
                 Bellingham, WA 98225.

                 Tele: (206)-676-3290;  Telefax: (206)-647-1445.

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee and reviews will be returned to the authors.  It is important
that each paper clearly state the problem which is being addressed, the
contribution that has been made, and the relation to the current state of
the art.

The program committee and conference chairs will make a selection of the
best papers accepted, and these authors will be invited to submit a
revised version of their paper to one or more special issues of journals
in AI (to be decided later).
             
Papers submitted to the Knowledge-Based Systems conference should not
also be submitted to the Machine Vision and Robotics conference of
Applications of AI XI.  Questions about which conference is most suitable
for a particular paper should be directed to the program chairmen.
 
Each presenter is generally allowed 20 to 25 minutes for presentation,
plus a brief discussion period (about 5 minutes). SPIE will provide the
following media equipment free of charge: 35 mm carousel slide
projectors, overhead projectors, electronic pointers and VHS format video
display.

Author Benefits
  Authors and coauthors who attend the conference will be accorded a 
  reduced-rate registration fee, a complimentary one-year non-voting
  membership in SPIE (if never before a member), and other special benefits.

IMPORTANT DATES: PAPERS DUE:                           September 14, 1992.
                 ACCEPT/REJECT LETTERS SENT BY:        November 20, 1992
                 CAMERA-READY PAPERS (5000 words) DUE: January 18, 1993.
                 CONFERENCE DATES:                     April 12-16, 1993.
 
Further questions may be directed to (e-mail preferred):

  Dr. Usama Fayyad                                Dr. Ramasamy Uthurusamy
  AI Group  M/S 525-3660                          Computer Science Department
  Jet Propulsion Lab                              General Motors Research Labs
  California Institute of Technology              30500 Mound Rd.
  Pasadena, CA 91109                              Warren, MI 48090-9055

  phone: (818) 306-6197                           phone: (313) 986-1989
  fax:   (818)-306-6912.                          fax:   (313) 986-9356
  e-mail: Fayyad@aig.jpl.nasa.gov                 e-mail: Samy@gmr.com

 ______________________________________________________________________________

 CALL FOR PAPERS 9/14/92 -- CALL FOR PAPERS 9/14/92 -- CALL FOR PAPERS 9/14/92 
 ______________________________________________________________________________



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Subject: IJCNN 92 Beijing Call For Papers *Extension*
From:    Wesley R Elsberry <elsberry@cse.uta.edu>
Date:    Tue, 21 Jul 92 15:09:37 -0600



                       IJCNN 92 BEIJING, CHINA
                          November 3-6, 1992

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                          --- Extension ---

Papers for the upcoming IJCNN 92 Beijing conference will continue to be
accepted through July 31, 1992.  Papers should be submitted in standard
IJCNN format (maximum of six pages, etc.) to:

        Dr. Harold Szu
        9402 Wildoak Drive
        Bethesda, MD 20814

Dr. Szu indicates that because of the limited technical communication
between the rest of the international ANN research community and the
People's Republic of China, papers submitted may be original work *or*
review articles.

Researchers are encouraged to contribute on any topic related to 
artificial neural networks.


Wesley R. Elsberry
Sysop, CNS BBS 509-627-6267; Moderator Int'l NEURAL_NET Echo;
elsberry@cse.uta.edu; POB 1187, Richland, WA 99352; 509-627-3947 voice


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Subject: TR - Determining the Number of Hidden Units
From:    Shun-ichi Amari <amari@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date:    Fri, 17 Jul 92 11:16:33 +0200

The following technical report has been placed in the Neuroprose Archives
at Ohio State University:

                  Network Information Criterion ---
                Determining the Number of Hidden Units
                for an Artificial Neural Network Model
                                   
          Noboru Murata, Shuji Yoshizawa and Shun-ichi Amari
                                   
                Technical Report METR 92-05, June 1992
    Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics
                         University of Tokyo
               Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

SUMMARY: (We recommend typesetting this region by Latex.)
\documentstyle{article}
\title{Model selection and effective number of parameters}
\author{Noboru MURATA \and Shuji YOSHIZAWA \and Shun-ichi AMARI}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

It is an important problem of the neural computation to select an
adequate model for a given set of training data.  This problem
naturally leads us a generalization of the AIC criterion of the model
selection of statistical models (see Murata et al. [1991], Moody
[1992]). The present note points out a natural generalization of the
AIC criterion, showing that the results of the above two papers are
equivalent and that they are applicable to more general situations.

Let us consider a stochastic neural network, parameterized by a set of
$m$ weights $\theta=(\theta^1,\cdots,\theta^m)$, whose input-output
behavior is specified by a conditional probability $p(y|x,\theta)$,
namely the probability distribution of output $y$ when the input
signal is $x$ (the signal $x$ might be multi dimensional).  Let
$q(y|x)$ be the true probability from which $n$ examples
$(y_i,x_i)$,$(i=1,\cdots,n)$ are generated, where $x_i$ is generated
from an unknown probability distribution $q(x)$ independently.  We
define a sample $\Xi_t=\{(y_i,x_i); i=1,\cdots,t\}$ as a set of $t$
examples.  The main problem is to find the best candidate $\theta^*$
which approximates the conditional distribution $q(y|x)$ and to
evaluate the model ability, where there might not exist $\hat\theta$
such that $p(y|x,\hat\theta)=q(y|x)$.

We use a test criterion
\begin{displaymath}
  D(q,p(\theta))=K[q:p(\theta)]+S(\theta)
\end{displaymath}
to be minimized, where $K[q:p(w)]$ represents a general divergence
measure between two conditional probabilities $q$ and $p(\theta)$, and
$S(\theta)$ is a regularization term which restricts the parameter
$\theta$ within an appropriate area (Moody [1992]).  We give two
typical case of $K$. One is the Kullback-Leibler divergence
\begin{displaymath}
  K[q:p(\theta)]=\int q(x)q(y|x)\log{\frac{q(y|x)}{p(y|x,\theta)}}dydx,
\end{displaymath}
and the other is the squared error
\begin{displaymath}
  K[q:p(\theta)]=\int\|y-f(x,\theta)\|^2q(x)q(y|x)dydx,
\end{displaymath}
where 
\begin{displaymath}
  f(x,\theta)=\int y\ p(y|x,\theta)dy.
\end{displaymath}
Any divergence measure of the type 
\begin{displaymath}
  K[q:p(\theta)]=\int q(x)q(y|x)k(x,y;\theta)dydx
\end{displaymath}
works well.

Given the sample $\Xi_t$, we search for the best parameter $\theta^*$
that minimize
\begin{displaymath}
  D(q^*,p(\theta))=K[q^*:p(\theta)]+S(\theta),
\end{displaymath}
where $q^*$ is the empirical distribution given by the sample $\Xi_t$, 
that is,
\begin{displaymath}
  K[q^*:p(\theta)]=\frac{1}{t}\sum_{i=1}^{t} k(x_i,y_i;\theta).
\end{displaymath}
This is because the true distributions $q(x)$ and $q(y|x)$ are
unknown, so we substitute the empirical distribution for the true
joint distribution $q(x)q(y|x)$.  The minimized $D(q^*,p(\theta^*))$ is
called the training loss or the training error, and it can be used for
estimating the test loss or the generalization error $D(q,p(\theta^*))$,
which shows the averaged behavior of the trained network when a new
example is given.

Since these quantities depend on the sample $\Xi_t$ whose elements are 
chosen randomly, we take the expectation $\langle\cdot\rangle$ with respect to 
the sample $\Xi_t$. We can the prove the following relation
\begin{displaymath}
  \langle D(q,p(\theta^*))\rangle=\langle D(q^*,p(\theta^*))\rangle
  +\frac{1}{t}\mbox{\rm tr}GQ^{-1}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}U,
\end{displaymath}
where $U$ is an unbiased random value of order $1$, common to all the
models which have the same architecture, $G$ is the covariance matrix
of $\nabla\{k(x,y;\theta^*)+S(\theta^*)\}$ and $Q$ is the Hessian
matrix of $D(q,p(\theta^*)$. These quantities are to be evaluated by
using the empirical distribution $q^*$ instead of the true but unknown
$q(x)$ and $q(y|x)$.  When we compare the abilities of two different
models and chose better model, we can use a quantity
\begin{displaymath}
  D(q^*,p(\theta^*))+\frac{1}{t}\mbox{\rm tr}GQ^{-1},
\end{displaymath}
and select one model whose value of the quantity is smaller than the
other's.

Now we can compare this result with others. If the probability
distribution is unconditional, $K$ is the Kullback-Leibler divergence,
$D$ includes no regularization term (S(w)=0), and there exist $\hat\theta$
such that $q=p(\hat\theta)$, then $Q$ and $G$ coincide with the Fisher
information matrix and
\begin{displaymath}
  m^*=\mbox{\rm tr}GQ^{-1}=m,
\end{displaymath}
holds, where $m$ is the dimension number of the parameter $\theta$.
This is the classic AIC result.  When no such $\hat\theta$ exists, $G$
and $Q$ never coincide with the Fisher information matrix (Takeuchi
[1980]), and an effective dimension $m^*$ is different from $m$.  When
$q$ and the optimal $p$ is close, Amari [1980] calculated $m^*$ by
using an ancillary statistics and the $m$-curvature of the model
surface.

A sketch of the proof of the present result was given in Murata et al. 
[1991], where the regularization term is not taken into account but
the proof remains valid. Moody [1992] defined the effective dimension
by
\begin{displaymath}
  m^*=\mbox{\rm tr}(TQ^{-1}T^T),
\end{displaymath}
where 
\begin{displaymath}
  G=T^TT
\end{displaymath}
holds, so that it coincides with the above result.  It should be noted
that the above result holds without assuming the linearity of the
model, existence of $\hat\theta$, the additive noise $\xi$ of the form
of
\begin{displaymath}
  z=f(x,w)+\xi,
\end{displaymath}
etc. Therefore, the result of Moody holds under another framework and
the AIC criterion can be applied in a general non-linear model.

On the other hand, it should be emphasized that this generalized criterion 
cannot be used when we compare two models of different architectures, 
say a neural network model and a radial basis expansion model.
This is because the quantity $U$ of the order $1/\sqrt{t}$ term is common 
only for two models in which one model is included in the other as a submodel.
The AIC criterion is valid only for such a family of models of submodels.
This important remark should more clearly be recognized,
since it is not clearly written in the original AIC theory.
\end{document}

END OF SUMMARY

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