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Revista Colombiana de Estadística

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GUZMAN, Eduardo; VAZQUEZ, Mario; VALLE, David del  and  PEREZ-RODRIGUEZ, Paulino. Artificial Neuronal Networks: A Bayesian Approach Using Parallel Computing. Rev.Colomb.Estad. [online]. 2018, vol.41, n.2, pp.173-189. ISSN 0120-1751.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rce.v41n2.55250.

An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is a learning paradigm and automatic processing inspired in the biological behavior of neurons and the brain structure. The brain is a complex system; its basic processing unit are the neurons, which are distributed massively in the brain sharing multiple connections between them. The ANNs try to emulate some characteristics of humans, and can be thought as intelligent systems that perform some tasks in a dierent way that actual computer does. The ANNs can be used to perform complex activities, for example: pattern recognition and classification, weather prediction, genetic values prediction, etc. The algorithms used to train the ANN, are in general complex, so therefore there is a need to have alternatives which lead to a significant reduction of times employed to train an ANN. In this work, we present an algorithm based in the strategy “divide and conquer” which allows to train an ANN with a single hidden layer. Part of the sub problems of the general algorithm used for training are solved by using parallel computing techniques, which allows to improve the performance of the resulting application. The proposed algorithm was implemented using the C++ programming language, and the libraries Open MPI and ScaLAPACK. We present some application examples and we asses the application performance. The results shown that it is possible to reduce significantly the time necessary to execute the program that implements the algorithm to train the ANN.

Keywords : Empirical Bayes; Nonlinear models; Parallel processing.

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