This methodological article is mainly aimed at establishing a bridge between classification and regression tasks, in a frame shaped by performance evaluation. More specifically, a general procedure for calculating performance measures is proposed, which can be applied to both classification and regression models. To this end, a notable change in the policy used to evaluate the confusion matrix is made, with the goal of reporting information about regression performance therein. This policy, called generalized token sharing, allows to a) assess models trained on both classification and regression tasks, b) evaluate the importance of input features, and c) inspect the behavior of multilayer perceptrons by looking at their hidden layers. The occurrence of success and failure patterns at the hidden layers of multilayer perceptrons trained and tested on selected regression problems, together with the effectiveness of layer-wise training, is also discussed.

Devising novel performance measures for assessing the behavior of multilayer perceptrons trained on regression tasks

Armano, Giuliano;
2023-01-01

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This methodological article is mainly aimed at establishing a bridge between classification and regression tasks, in a frame shaped by performance evaluation. More specifically, a general procedure for calculating performance measures is proposed, which can be applied to both classification and regression models. To this end, a notable change in the policy used to evaluate the confusion matrix is made, with the goal of reporting information about regression performance therein. This policy, called generalized token sharing, allows to a) assess models trained on both classification and regression tasks, b) evaluate the importance of input features, and c) inspect the behavior of multilayer perceptrons by looking at their hidden layers. The occurrence of success and failure patterns at the hidden layers of multilayer perceptrons trained and tested on selected regression problems, together with the effectiveness of layer-wise training, is also discussed.
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