Simplified Information Maximization for Improving Generalization Performance in Multilayered Neural Networks

Table 1

Summary of experimental results by the simplified information maximization for the first to the sixth competitive layer for the Iris data. The simplified information maximization and standard multilayered neural networks are represented by “SIM” and “STD,” respectively.

Methods	Layers	Average	Std. dev.	Max	Min
SIM	1	0.029	0.019	0.057	0.000
	2	0.031	0.025	0.086	0.000
	3	0.029	0.030	0.086	0.000
	4	0.029	0.019	0.057	0.000
	5	0.026	0.025	0.057	0.000
	6	0.026	0.021	0.057	0.000
STD	1	0.049	0.036	0.114	0.000
	2	0.029	0.027	0.086	0.000
	3	0.043	0.028	0.086	0.000
	4	0.046	0.039	0.114	0.000
	5	0.034	0.030	0.086	0.000
	6	0.049	0.027	0.114	0.029