Multi-valued neuron with a periodic activation function — Influence of l-periodic parameter over the learning process

Abstract

Multi-Value Neuron with a periodic activation function (MVN-P) represents an evolution of the Multi-Value Neuron (MVN) by introducing the concept of l-periodic occurrence of the possible output sectors. Increased efficiency was obtained based on this new approach and it was observed that the l-periodicity parameter has an important impact over the learning process. This paper presents a study of this impact in terms of learning efficiency (error rate and learning epochs).