Adaline Schematic

i1
i2

Adjust
weights

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w0 + w1i1 + + wnin

Output

Compare with
desired value
class(i) (1 or -1)

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The Adaline Learning Algorithm

The Adaline uses gradient descent to determine the
weight vector that leads to minimal error.
Error is defined as the MSE between the neurons net
input netj and its desired output dj (= class(ij)) across
all training samples ij.
The idea is to pick samples in random order and
perform (slow) gradient descent in their individual
error functions.
This technique allows incremental learning, i.e.,
refining of the weights as more training samples are
added.
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The Adaline Learning Algorithm

E (d j net j ) 2
E

2(d j net j )
(net j )
wk
wk
n

2(d j net j )
wl il , j
wk l 0

2(d j net j )ik , j

The Adaline uses gradient descent to determine the weight
vector that leads to minimal error.
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The Adaline Learning Algorithm

The gradient is then given by
E
w
0

: 2(d j net j )i j
E
wn

For gradient descent, w should be a negative

multiple of the gradient:

w (d j net j )i j , with positive step - size parameter

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The Widrow-Hoff Delta Rule

In the original learning rule

w (d j net j )i j
Longer input vectors result in greater weight changes,
which can cause problems if there are extreme
differences in vector length in the training set.
Widrow and Hoff (1960) suggested the following
modification of the learning rule:

w (d j net j )
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ij
|| i j ||

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Multiclass Discrimination
Often, our classification problems involve more than
two classes.
For example, character recognition requires at least
26 different classes.
We can perform such tasks using layers of
perceptrons or Adalines.

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Multiclass Discrimination
w11
w12

i1

o1
o2

i2
..
.

o3

in
w4n

o4

A four-node perceptron for a four-class problem in ndimensional

input
space
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Multiclass Discrimination
Each perceptron learns to recognize one particular
class, i.e., output 1 if the input is in that class, and 0
otherwise.
The units can be trained separately and in parallel.
In production mode, the network decides that its current
input is in the k-th class if and only if ok = 1, and for all j
k, oj = 0, otherwise it is misclassified.
For units with real-valued output, the neuron with
maximal output can be picked to indicate the class of the
input.
This maximum should be significantly greater than all
other outputs, otherwise the input is misclassified.
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Multilayer Networks
Although single-layer perceptron networks can
distinguish between any number of classes, they still
require linear separability of inputs.
To overcome this serious limitation, we can use multiple
layers of neurons.
Rosenblatt first suggested this idea in 1961, but he
used perceptrons.
However, their non-differentiable output function led to
an inefficient and weak learning algorithm.
The idea that eventually led to a breakthrough was the
use of continuous output functions and gradient
descent.
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Multilayer Networks
The resulting backpropagation algorithm was
popularized by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams
(1986).
This algorithm solved the credit assignment
problem, i.e., crediting or blaming individual neurons
across layers for particular outputs.
The error at the output layer is propagated backwards
to units at lower layers, so that the weights of all
neurons can be adapted appropriately.
The gradient descent technique is similar to the
Adaline, but propagating the error requires some
additional computations.
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Terminology
Example: Network function f: R3 R2
output vector
o1
o2

output layer

w2( 2, 4,1)

( 2 ,1)
1,1

hidden layer

w1(,11, 0)

w4(1,3, 0 )
input layer
x1

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x2
input vector

x3

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