Hybrid neural network

About: Hybrid neural network is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1305 publications have been published within this topic receiving 18223 citations.

Improved understorey bamboo cover mapping using a novel hybrid neural network and expert system

Abstract: The giant panda is an obligate bamboo grazer. Therefore, the availability and abundance of understorey bamboo determines the quantity and quality of panda habitat. However, there is little or no information about the spatial distribution or abundance of bamboo underneath the forest canopy, due to the limitations of traditional remote sensing classification techniques. In this paper, a new method combines an artificial neural network and a GIS expert system in order to map understorey bamboo in the Qinling Mountains of south-western China. Results from leaf-off ASTER imagery, using a neural network and an expert system, were evaluated for their suitability to quantify understorey bamboo. Three density classes of understorey bamboo were mapped, first using a neural network (overall accuracy 64.7%, Kappa 0.45) and then using an expert system (overall accuracy 62.1%, Kappa 0.43). However, when using the results of the neural network classification as input into the expert system, a significantly improved mapping accuracy was achieved with an overall accuracy of 73.8% and Kappa of 0.60 (average z-value = 3.35, p = 0.001). Our study suggests that combining a neural network with an expert system makes it possible to successfully map the cover of understorey species such as bamboo in complex forested landscapes (e.g. coniferous-dominated and dense canopy forests), and with higher accuracy than when using either a neural network or an expert system.

Knowledge Enhanced Hybrid Neural Network for Text Matching

Abstract: Long text brings a big challenge to semantic matching due to their complicated semantic and syntactic structures. To tackle the challenge, we consider using prior knowledge to help identify useful information and filter out noise to matching in long text. To this end, we propose a knowledge enhanced hybrid neural network (KEHNN). The model fuses prior knowledge into word representations by knowledge gates and establishes three matching channels with words, sequential structures of sentences given by Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), and knowledge enhanced representations. The three channels are processed by a convolutional neural network to generate high level features for matching, and the features are synthesized as a matching score by a multilayer perceptron. The model extends the existing methods by conducting matching on words, local structures of sentences, and global context of sentences. Evaluation results from extensive experiments on public data sets for question answering and conversation show that KEHNN can significantly outperform the-state-of-the-art matching models and particularly improve the performance on pairs with long text.

A novel hybrid neural network based on phase space reconstruction technique for daily river flow prediction

Abstract: The main purpose of this study is to construct a new hybrid model (PSR–ANN) by combining phase space reconstruction (PSR) and artificial neural network (ANN) techniques to raise the accuracy for the prediction of daily river flow. For this purpose, river flow data at three measurement stations of the USA were used. To reconstruct the phase space and determine the input data for the PSR–ANN method, the delay time and embedding dimension were calculated by average mutual information and false nearest neighbors analysis. The presence of chaotic dynamics in the used data was identified by the correlation dimension methods. The results of the PSR–ANN, pure ANN and gene expression programming (GEP) models were inter-compared using the Nash–Sutcliffe and root-mean-square error criteria. The inter-comparisons showed that the proposed PSR–ANN method provides the best prediction of daily river flow. Moreover, the ANN model showed higher ability than the pure GEP in estimation of the river flow.