Conducting banding analysis with trained networks of sigmoid units
Berkeley et at. (1995, Connection Science, 7: 167-186) introduced a novel technique for analysing the hidden units of connectionist networks that had been trained using the backpropagation teaming procedure. The literature concerning banding analysis is equivocal with respect to the kinds of processing units this technique can be used on. In this paper, it will be shown that, contrary to the claims in some published sources, banding analysis can be conducted on networks that use standard processing units that have a sigmoid activation function. The analytic process is then illustrated and the potential benefits of this kind of technique are discussed.
analysis sigmoid backpropagation bonding interpretation