title: Conventional modeling of the multilayer perceptron using polynomial basis functions.
abstract: A technique for modeling the multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network, in which input and hidden units are represented by polynomial basis functions (PBFs), is presented. The MLP output is expressed as a linear combination of the PBFs and can therefore be expressed as a polynomial function of its inputs. Thus, the MLP is isomorphic to conventional polynomial discriminant classifiers or Volterra filters. The modeling technique was successfully applied to several trained MLP networks.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Univ., Arlington, TX.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Manry