Analysis of Unstandardized Contributions in Cross Connected Networks

Understanding knowledge representations in neural nets has been a difficult problem. Principal components analysis (PCA) of contributions (products of sending activations and connection weights) has yielded valuable insights into knowledge representations, but much of this work has focused on the correlation matrix of contributions. The present work shows that analyzing the variance-covariance matrix of contributions yields more valid insights by taking account of weights.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: NIPS
• Authors: Thomas R. Shultz, Yuriko Oshima-Takane, Yoshio Takane
• Keywords: Connection Weights, Knowledge Representations, NIPS 1994, NIPS 2007, Principal Components Analysis