Preference Neural Network

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2023, PP, (99), pp. 1-15
Issue Date:
2023-01-01
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This paper proposes a novel label ranker network to learn the relationship between labels to solve ranking and classification problems. The Preference Neural Network (PNN) uses spearman correlation gradient ascent and two new activation functions, positive smooth staircase (PSS), and smooth staircase (SS) that accelerate the ranking by creating almost deterministic preference values. PNN is proposed in two forms, fully connected simple Three layers and Preference Net (PN), where the latter is the deep ranking form of PNN to learning feature selection using ranking to solve images classification problem. PN uses a new type of ranker kernel to generate a feature map. PNN outperforms five previously proposed methods for label ranking, obtaining state-of-the-art results on label ranking, and PN achieves promising results on CFAR-100 with high computational efficiency.
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