what is Create trainable cascade-forward backpropagation network (NEWCF)?

Hi all; what is the difference between the Create trainable cascade-forward backpropagation network (NEWCF) and hybrid multilayer neural network (H-MLP)? NEWCF is listed on matlab tool box but i couldn't find any references about it. where can i found a references (article , book about ( NEWCF)?

Answer 1

[Greg Heath]

>> help newcf

newcf Create a cascade-forward backpropagation network.

   Obsoleted in R2010b NNET 7.0.  Last used in R2010a NNET 6.0.4.
   The recommended function is cascadeforwardnet.

help cascadeforwardnet

doc cascadeforwardnet

You can understand the difference between this and feedforwardnet by comparing the view(net) statement results of the example in the above documentation with the corresponding documentation examples for feedforwardnet.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for formally accepting my answer

Greg

[Mo al]

hi Greg. what i am looking for is the equations and formulas used on creating cascade neural network.. references like book, journals.

[Greg Heath]

Even if you are sufficiently near a library, I suggest searching the net first.

[Mo al]

belive me dear Greg. I have been searching for more than 1 week. by the end i gave up to post and ask on the net... so please if you know where i can find that equation tell me.

[Greg Heath]

Sorry. I donated all of my NN books to the MIT library when I retired. When I have to look up something I search the net.

[Greg Heath]

You can't deduce the equations from looking at this diagram?

 net  = cascadeforwardnet; 
 [x,t]= simpleseries_dataset;
  net = configure(net,x,t); 
  view(net)

Hint: Let h be the output of the hidden layer. Then

 h = ...
 y = ...

Hope this helps.

[Mo al]

Thank Greg.. Do you have any from where did the NEWCF come from? do you still remember any book about it?

[Greg Heath]

It was developed by Scott Fahlman and his group at Carnegie Mellon.

Check out Google and Wikipedia for more info.