Neural Network Parallel Computing is the first book available to the professional market on neural network computing for optimization problems. This introductory book is not only for the novice reader, but for experts in a variety of areas including parallel computing, neural network computing, computer science, communications, graph theory, computer aided design for VLSI circuits, molecular biology, management science, and operations research. The goal of the book is to facilitate an understanding as to the uses of neural network models in real-world applications. Neural Network Parallel Computing presents a major breakthrough in science and a variety of engineering fields. The computational power of neural network computing is demonstrated by solving numerous problems such as N-queen, crossbar switch scheduling, four-coloring and k-colorability, graph planarization and channel routing, RNA secondary structure prediction, knight's tour, spare allocation, sorting and searching, and tiling. Neural Network Parallel Computing is an excellent reference for researchers in all areas covered by the book. Furthermore, the text may be used in a senior or graduate level course on the topic.

The 119 contributions in this book cover a range of topics, including parallel computing, parallel processing in biological neural systems, simulators for artificial neural networks, neural networks for visual and auditory pattern recognition as well as for motor control, AI, and examples of optical and molecular computing. The book may be regarded as a state-of-the-art report and at the same time as an Interdisciplinary Reference Source' for parallel processing. It should catalyze international and interdisciplinary cooperation among computer scientists, neuroscientists, physicists and engineers in the attempt to: 1) decipher parallel information processes in biology, physics and chemistry 2) design conceptually similar technical parallel information processors."

An excellent reference for neural networks research and application, this book covers the parallel implementation aspects of all major artificial neural network models in a single text. Parallel Architectures for Artificial Neural Networks details implementations on various processor architectures built on different hardware platforms, ranging from large, general purpose parallel computers to custom built MIMD machine. Working experts describe their implementation research including results that are then divided into three sections: The theoretical analysis of parallel implementation schemes on MIMD message passing machines The details of parallel implementation of BP neural networks on general purpose, large, parallel computers Four specific purpose parallel neural computer configuration Aimed at graduate students and researchers working in artificial neural networks and parallel computing this work can be used by graduate level educators to illustrate parallel computing methods for ANN simulation. Practitioners will also find the text an ideal reference tool for lucid mathematical analyses.

Neural networks are inherently parallel algorithms. Multicore CPUs, graphical processing units (GPUs), and clusters of computers with multiple CPUs and GPUs can take advantage of this parallelism. Parallel Computing Toolbox, when used in conjunction with Neural Network Toolbox, enables neural network training and simulation to take advantage of each mode of parallelism. Parallel Computing Toolbox allows neural network training and simulation to run across multiple CPU cores on a single PC, or across multiple CPUs on multiple computers on a network using MATLAB Distributed Computing Server. Using multiple cores can speed calculations. Using multiple computers can allow you to solve problems using data sets too big to fit in the RAM of a single computer. The only limit to problem size is the total quantity of RAM available across all computers. Distributed and GPU computing can be combined to run calculations across multiple CPUs and/or GPUs on a single computer, or on a cluster with MATLAB Distributed Computing Server. It is desirable to determine the optimal regularization parameters in an automated fashion. One approach to this process is the Bayesian framework. In this framework, the weights and biases of the network are assumed to be random variables with specified distributions. The regularization parameters are related to the unknown variances associated with these distributions. You can then estimate these parameters using statistical techniques. It is very difficult to know which training algorithm will be the fastest for a given problem. It depends on many factors, including the complexity of the problem, the number of data points in the training set, the number of weights and biases in the network, the error goal, and whether the network is being used for pattern recognition (discriminant analysis) or function approximation (regression). This book compares the various training algorithms. One of the problems that occur during neural network training is called overfitting. The error on the training set is driven to a very small value, but when new data is presented to the network the error is large. The network has memorized the training examples, but it has not learned to generalize to new situations. This book develops the following topics: Neural Networks with Parallel and GPU Computing Deep Learning Optimize Neural Network Training Speed and Memory Improve Neural Network Generalization and Avoid Overfitting Create and Train Custom Neural Network Architectures Deploy Training of Neural Networks Perceptron Neural Networks Linear Neural Networks Hopfield Neural Network Neural Network Object Reference Neural Network Simulink Block Library Deploy Neural Network Simulink Diagrams

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, ICANNGA 2009, held in Kuopio, Finland, in April 2009. The 63 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 112 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neutral networks, evolutionary computation, learning, soft computing, bioinformatics as well as applications.

Deep Learning and Parallel Computing Environment for Bioengineering Systems delivers a significant forum for the technical advancement of deep learning in parallel computing environment across bio-engineering diversified domains and its applications. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, it focuses on methods used to identify and acquire valid, potentially useful knowledge sources. Managing the gathered knowledge and applying it to multiple domains including health care, social networks, mining, recommendation systems, image processing, pattern recognition and predictions using deep learning paradigms is the major strength of this book. This book integrates the core ideas of deep learning and its applications in bio engineering application domains, to be accessible to all scholars and academicians. The proposed techniques and concepts in this book can be extended in future to accommodate changing business organizations' needs as well as practitioners' innovative ideas. - Presents novel, in-depth research contributions from a methodological/application perspective in understanding the fusion of deep machine learning paradigms and their capabilities in solving a diverse range of problems - Illustrates the state-of-the-art and recent developments in the new theories and applications of deep learning approaches applied to parallel computing environment in bioengineering systems - Provides concepts and technologies that are successfully used in the implementation of today's intelligent data-centric critical systems and multi-media Cloud-Big data

MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox provides algorithms, pretrained models, and apps to create, train, visualize, and simulate both shallow and deep neural networks. You can perform classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, time-series forecasting, and dynamic system modeling and control. Deep learning networks include convolutional neural networks (ConvNets, CNNs) and autoencoders for image classification, regression, and feature learning. For small training sets, you can quickly apply deep learning by performing transfer learning with pretrained deep networks. To speed up training on large datasets, you can use Parallel Computing Toolbox to distribute computations and data across multicore processors and GPUs on the desktop, and you can scale up to clusters and clouds (including Amazon EC2(R) P2 GPU instances) with MATLAB(R) Distributed Computing Server. The Key Features developed in this book are de next: - Deep learning with convolutional neural networks (for classification and regression) and autoencoders (for feature learning) - Transfer learning with pretrained convolutional neural network models - Training and inference with CPUs or multi-GPUs on desktops, clusters, and clouds - Unsupervised learning algorithms, including self-organizing maps and competitive layers - Supervised learning algorithms, including multilayer, radial basis, learning vector quantization (LVQ), time-delay, nonlinear autoregressive (NARX), and recurrent neural network (RNN) - Preprocessing, postprocessing, and network visualization for improving training efficiency and assessing network performance