Adaptive regularization of neural classifiers
Lars Nonboe Andersen, Jan Otto Larsen, Lars Kai Hansen, M. Hintz-Madsen · 2002
We present a regularization scheme which iteratively adapts the regularization parameters by minimizing the validation error. It is suggested to use the adaptive regularization scheme in conjunction with optimal brain damage pruning to optimize the architecture and to avoid overfitting. Furthermore, we propose an improved neural classification architecture eliminating an inherent redundancy in the widely used SoftMax classification network. Numerical results demonstrate the viability of the method.