Package weka.classifiers.functions.neural

Class LinearUnit

java.lang.Object

weka.classifiers.functions.neural.LinearUnit

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, NeuralMethod, RevisionHandler

public class LinearUnit
extends Object
implements NeuralMethod, RevisionHandler

This can be used by the neuralnode to perform all it's computations (as a Linear unit).

Version:

$Revision: 8034 $

Author:

Malcolm Ware (mfw4@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
LinearUnit()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
double	errorValue(NeuralNode node)	This function calculates what the error value should be.
String	getRevision()	Returns the revision string.
double	outputValue(NeuralNode node)	This function calculates what the output value should be.
void	updateWeights(NeuralNode node, double learn, double momentum)	This function will calculate what the change in weights should be and also update them.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

LinearUnit

public LinearUnit()

Method Details

outputValue

public double outputValue(NeuralNode node)

This function calculates what the output value should be.

Specified by:

outputValue in interface NeuralMethod

Parameters:

node - The node to calculate the value for.

Returns:

The value.

errorValue

public double errorValue(NeuralNode node)

This function calculates what the error value should be.

Specified by:

errorValue in interface NeuralMethod

Parameters:

node - The node to calculate the error for.

Returns:

The error.

updateWeights

public void updateWeights(NeuralNode node,
 double learn,
 double momentum)

This function will calculate what the change in weights should be and also update them.

Specified by:

updateWeights in interface NeuralMethod

Parameters:

node - The node to update the weights for.

learn - The learning rate to use.

momentum - The momentum to use.

getRevision

public String getRevision()

Returns the revision string.

Specified by:

getRevision in interface RevisionHandler

Returns:

the revision