[R] Neural Network resource

Max Kuhn mxkuhn at gmail.com
Wed May 27 17:49:47 CEST 2009


> I fed this data into a Neural network (3 hidden layers with 6 neurons in each layer) and trained the network. When I passed the input dataset and tried to get the predictions, all the predicted values were identical! This confused me a bit and was wondering whether my understanding of the Neural Network was wrong.
>
> Have you ever faced anything like it?

You should really provide code for us to help. I would initially
suspect that you didn't use a linear function between your hidden
units and the outcomes.

Also, using 3 hidden layers and 6 units per layer is a bit much for
your data set (30-40 samples). You will probably end up overfitting.

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Max




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