R help - Oct 2020 - Fwd: Help using the exclude option in the neuralnet package

Dear all,

the exclude and constant.weights options are used as follows:

exclude: A matrix with n rows and 3 columns will exclude n weights. The the
first column refers to the layer, the second column to the input neuron and the
third column to the output neuron of the weight.

constant.weights: A vector specifying the values of the weights that are
excluded from the training process and treated as fix.

Please refer to the following example:

Not using exclude and constant.weights (all weights are trained):
> nn <- neuralnet(Species == "setosa" ~ Petal.Length +
Petal.Width, iris, linear.output = FALSE)
>
> nn$weights
[[1]]
[[1]][[1]]
[,1]
[1,] 6.513239
[2,] -0.815920
[3,] -5.859802
[[1]][[2]]
[,1]
[1,] -4.597934
[2,] 9.179436

Using exclude (2 weights are excluded --> NA):
> nn <- neuralnet(Species == "setosa" ~ Petal.Length +
Petal.Width, iris, linear.output = FALSE,
exclude = matrix(c(1,2,1, 2,2,1),byrow=T, nrow=2))
> nn$weights
[[1]]
[[1]][[1]]
[,1]
[1,] -0.2815942
[2,] NA
[3,] 0.2481212
[[1]][[2]]
[,1]
[1,] -0.6934932
[2,] NA

Using exclude and constant.weights (2 weights are excluded and treated as fix
--> 100 and 1000, respectively):
> nn <- neuralnet(Species == "setosa" ~ Petal.Length +
Petal.Width, iris, linear.output = FALSE,
exclude = matrix(c(1,2,1, 2,2,1),byrow=T, nrow=2),
constant.weights=c(100,1000))
> nn$weights
[[1]]
[[1]][[1]]
[,1]
[1,] 0.554119
[2,] 100.000000
[3,] 1.153611
[[1]][[2]]
[,1]
[1,] -0.3962524
[2,] 1000.0000000

I hope you will find this example helpful.

Sincerely,
Frauke

>     William Michels <wjm1 at caa.columbia.edu mailto:wjm1 at
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>     Subject: Re: [R] Help using the exclude option in the neuralnet package
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>     Good Morning,
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>     I am using the neuralnet package in R, and am able to produce some
>     basic neural nets, and use the output.
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>     I would like to exclude some of the weights and biases from the
>     iteration process and fix their values.
>      
>     However I do not seem to be able to correctly define the exclude and
>     constant.weights vectors.
>      
>     Question: Can someone point me to an example where exclude and
>     contant.weights are used. I have search the R help archive, and
>     haven't found any examples which use these on the web.
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>     Thank you in advance for any help.
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>     Sincerely
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>     Dan
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