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Question by ELNA
Submitted on 9/9/2004
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I have recently begun studying neural networks and AI techniques and have a couple of general questions which I would appreciate some more experienced views on. I am not looking for exact answers to my questions just some plausible possibilities if possible.

1- If you added a second hidden layer to an MLP and this caused the network to perform fractionally worse what are the possible reasons for this.

2- If the training iterations were increased for the same network and this caused it to drastically decrease in performance could this be due to overtraining  which means the network is not generalised enough to recognise patterns not in the training set.

3- If the network was designed to recognise images and there were 3 different resolutions for the images say low, medium and high I would have expected the high resolution images to perform better. However my tests have shown that this is not the case and no pattern could be seen. Scoring the network out of 100% I got the following results, low resolution 85%, medium resolution 83% and high resolution 84%. Could anybody give me a plausible reason for this? I thought the more information the more likely that the images could be distinguished from each other.

4- If you had two knowledge-based systems one with crisp rules and one with fuzzy rules and both performed perfectly then is the only advantage to the fuzzy rules system that it can give a degree of probability rather than a simple yes or no and is there any advantage in such a case for using the crisp rules.

5-Could any one give me a couple of practical advantages and disadvantages to adopting AI techniques in general.

Any opinions greatly received

Regards
Elna



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