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Neural Computation

May 1993, Vol. 5, No. 3, Pages 473-482
(doi: 10.1162/neco.1993.5.3.473)
© 1993 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robustness in Multilayer Perceptrons
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P. Kerlirzin
Laboratoire Central de Recherches, Thomson-CSF 91404 Orsay (Cedex), France
F. Vallet
Laboratoire Central de Recherches, Thomson-CSF 91404 Orsay (Cedex), France
Abstract

In this paper, we study the robustness of multilayer networks versus the destruction of neurons. We show that the classical backpropagation algorithm does not lead to optimal robustness and we propose a modified algorithm that improves this capability.