Article: Associative Neural Network

[Igor Tetko]

Dear Connectionists,

the following paper (15 pages in pdf format) is  available as CogPrints archive

http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/14/41/index.html

ID code: cog00001441.

and also from 
  
http://www.lnh.unil.ch/~itetko/articles/asnn.pdf

Best regards,
Igor Tetko




             Igor V. Tetko

         Associative Neural Network

ABSTRACT:

An associative neural network (ASNN) is a combination of an ensemble
of the feed-forward neural networks and the K-nearest neighbor
technique. The introduced network uses correlation between ensemble
responses as a measure of distance of the analyzed cases for the
nearest neighbor technique and provides an improved prediction by the
bias correction of the neural network ensemble. An associative neural
network has a memory that can coincide with the training set. If new
data become available, the network further improves its predicting
ability and can often provide a reasonable approximation of the
unknown function without a need to retrain the neural network
ensemble.