We investigate how training patterns should be presented to a back-propagation neural network (BPNN) so as to train the BPNN with a small deviation of training patterns and to improve the BPNN's learning speed. First, we explain the problem with a conventional learning technique, in which all training patterns are presented to a BPNN equally. Then, we propose a selective presentation of training set to a BPNN. In a proposed technique, using several criterion values for both the mean summed squared error and individual summed squared errors, we detect poorly-trained patterns and present them more often. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is confirmed by evaluation experiments using mesh patterns extracted from handwritten digits and two-dimensional Gaussian distribution data.
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