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Paper #1115959 has the title `Pruning Strategies for the MTiling Constructive Learning Algorithm  
` and the abstract `We present a framework for incorporating pruning strategies in the MTiling constructive neural network learning algorithm. Pruning involves elimination of redundant elements (connection weights or neurons) from a network and is of considerable practical interest. We describe three elementary sensitivity based strategies for pruning neurons. Experimental results demonstrate a moderate to significant reduction in the network size without compromising the network's generalization performance. 
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Paper #1115959 has the title `Pruning Strategies for the MTiling Constructive Learning Algorithm  
` and the abstract `We present a framework for incorporating pruning strategies in the MTiling constructive neural network learning algorithm. Pruning involves elimination of redundant elements (connection weights or neurons) from a network and is of considerable practical interest. We describe three elementary sensitivity based strategies for pruning neurons. Experimental results demonstrate a moderate to significant reduction in the network size without compromising the network's generalization performance. 
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Question: Which category should Paper #1115959 be classified as ?
You can select one from ['Neural_Networks', 'Case_Based', 'Theory', 'Reinforcement_Learning', 'Probabilistic_Methods', 'Rule_Learning', 'Genetic_Algorithms'].

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