curry@bdrc.bd.com (Joan Curry) (06/28/91)
(a) Does anyone know of research directed at associating statistical
or heuristic confidence measures with classifications made by
neural nets?
(b) Anyone know how specific commercial products address this question
(if at all)?
Mostly I'm talking about feedforward nets that were trained with
supervised methods.
A partial answer to (b) is: HNC's KnowledgeNet product literature
says they provide two "confidence measures." "Decisiveness measures
the strength of the network's decision, as evidenced by the distance
between the output state(s) and decision boundaries." Decisiveness
values range from 0% to 100%. HNC's other "confidence" measure is
"certainty", which has to do with whether/how much currently unknown
input values could affect the result if they became known.
If at least a few people tell me they're interested, I'll summarize
to the newsgroup.
Thanks,
Joan
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