BOOK AND SOFTWARE ANNOUNCEMENT
A new release (3.2) of the Netlab toolbox is now available from
http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/netlab
Written in Matlab, this freely available software includes implementations
of a wide range of data analysis techniques, many of which are not
available
in other neural network simulation packages.
An accompanying text book, titled "Netlab: Algorithms for Pattern
Recognition"
written by Ian Nabney is published by Springer (ISBN: 1-85233-440-1).
This book has the following features:
1. Supplies both algorithm knowledge and practical tools for a principled
approach to application development.
2. Brings together relevant theory with details of how to implement models
efficiently and flexibly.
3. Makes some of the leading edge research in this area accessible in a
highly usable form.
4. Provides researchers with a tool kit as a basis for developing new
ideas.
5. Worked examples and demonstration programs illustrate the theory and
help
the reader understand the algorithms and how to use them.
The software includes the following algorithms:
PCA
Mixtures of probabilistic PCA
Gaussian mixture model with EM training algorithm
Linear and logistic regression with IRLS training algorithm
Multi-layer perceptron with linear, logistic and softmax outputs and
appropriate error functions
Radial basis function (RBF) networks with both Gaussian and non-local basis
functions
Optimisers, including quasi-Newton methods, conjugate gradients and scaled
conjugate gradients
Multi-layer perceptron with Gaussian mixture outputs
(mixture density networks)
Gaussian prior distributions over parameters for the MLP, RBF and GLM
including multiple hyper-parameters
Laplace approximation framework for Bayesian inference (evidence procedure)
Automatic Relevance Determination for input selection
Markov chain Monte-Carlo including simple Metropolis and hybrid Monte-Carlo
K-nearest neighbour classifier
K-means clustering
Generative Topographic Map
Neuroscale topographic projection
Gaussian Processes
Hinton diagrams for network weights
Self-organising map
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ian Nabney i.t.nabney@aston.ac.uk Cardionetics Institute of Bioinformatics tel: +44 (0)121 333 4631 Aston University fax: +44 (0)121 333 4586 Aston Triangle Birmingham B4 7ET http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/
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