Seniority Logic: A Logic for a Committee Machine
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Computers
- Vol. C-26 (12) , 1302-1306
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.1977.1674798
Abstract
A logic for a committee of perceptrons, called seniority logic, and a local adjustment algorithm for training a seniority committee are described. Like a majority committee, a seniority committee has the capacity to solve any two-class problem in which the classes are disjoint. Unlike a majority committee, a seniority committee may have members added during training, and a seniority committee is free to attain a size needed to solve a problem. In computer simulations on patterns with binary components a seniority committee has a higher recognition rate and needs fewer members than a majority committee. Solutions learned during training have high recognition rates on the training set and are reasonably free of bias.Keywords
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