help, neural nets!

Hi every1,

i have a feed forward back propagation java source code which classify male and female crabs according to numeric measurements. Well it uses 7 input neurons,2 hidden layers of 10 neurons and 1 output neuron. the net usestanH activation function 4 all layers. As 4 me i am using a feed forward net to classify 5 insects based on characteristics

For my neural network i've devise a method to convert each characteristic to a numeric value and feed it to the neural network(8 in all). I want to alter the source code by adding 5 outputs(for different insects). But i have one problem, all my target patterns r of positive numeric values. I think i must use Linear activation for each output neuron so that i can compare range of values for the neuron to fire!!, am i right.?

the output code to classify the crabs r shown below:

if ( outputs[0]<0 ){

System.out.println("Result: Male");

}

else{

System.out.println("Result: Female");

}

can i say

if(outputs[0]>4.8&outputs[0]<5.00) [infi use linear function?]

>Insect type

wat do i do?

[1411 byte] By [Pharaosa] at [2007-10-2 13:17:26]
# 1
I don't know anything about neural nets. But this seems like somethig that's quite easily tested, don't you think?
DaanSa at 2007-7-13 10:50:18 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...
# 2
Did you read my replies in your [url= http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=705793]original thread[/url]?kind regards,Jos
JosAHa at 2007-7-13 10:50:18 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...
# 3

> Did you read my replies in your

> [url=http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=70

> 5793]original thread[/url]?

I read this in the other thread:

"thanx a lot 4 ur advice buddy, i'll try 2 stick to it. Furthermore i have another issue 4 u(hope am not 2 borin :-), "

Just because you ask Pharaos. Yes you're writing is extremely boring with all these juvenile word shortcuts.

JosAHa at 2007-7-13 10:50:18 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...