Learning in feedforward layered networks: the tiling algorithm

Abstract

The authors propose a new algorithm which builds a feedforward layered network in order to learn any Boolean function of N Boolean units. The number of layers and the number of hidden units in each layer are not prescribed in advance: they are outputs of the algorithm. It is an algorithm for growth of the network, which adds layers, and units inside a layer, at will until convergence. The convergence is guaranteed and numerical tests of this strategy look promising.