A Comparison of Projection Pursuit and Neural Network Regression Modeling

Abstract

Two projection based feedforward network learning methods for model(cid:173) free regression problems are studied and compared in this paper: one is the popular back-propagation learning (BPL); the other is the projection pursuit learning (PPL). Unlike the totally parametric BPL method, the PPL non-parametrically estimates unknown nonlinear functions sequen(cid:173) tially (neuron-by-neuron and layer-by-Iayer) at each iteration while jointly estimating the interconnection weights. In terms of learning efficiency, both methods have comparable training speed when based on a Gauss(cid:173) Newton optimization algorithm while the PPL is more parsimonious. In terms of learning robustness toward noise outliers, the BPL is more sensi(cid:173) tive to the outliers.

Cite

Text

Huang et al. "A Comparison of Projection Pursuit and Neural Network Regression Modeling." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1991.

Markdown

[Huang et al. "A Comparison of Projection Pursuit and Neural Network Regression Modeling." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1991.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1991/huang1991neurips-comparison/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{huang1991neurips-comparison,
  title     = {{A Comparison of Projection Pursuit and Neural Network Regression Modeling}},
  author    = {Huang, Jenq-Neng and Li, Hang and Maechler, Martin and Martin, R. Douglas and Schimert, Jim},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1991},
  pages     = {1159-1166},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1991/huang1991neurips-comparison/}
}