Set No.

Code No.: 421901

IV B.Tech II-Semester Examinations April 2003

NEURAL NETWORKS
1
(Electronics and Computer Engineering)

Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80

Answer any five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) Explain the terms cell body, axon, synapse dendrite and neuron with reference to
a biological neural network.
b) What are the objectives training a neural network? Differentiate between
supervised and unsupervised training processes.

2.a) Why a single layer of perceptron cannot be used to solve linearly inseparable
problems? Explain with an example.
b) Show by geometrical arguments that a 3-layer perceptron can solve an exclusive-
OR problem.

3.a) What is a counter propagation network? Give the feed forward and full counter
propagation network structures.
b) Describe the procedure of training Kohonen and Grossberg layers of CPN.

4.a) Describe the recognition phases of ART classification.

b) What are the different phases of operation of ART syste3m and describe ART
training phase.

5.a) Give the structure of a feedback neural network and how the stability of this
network is established?
b) Describe the procedure to produce a Analog-to-Digital counter using recurrent
network.

6.a) What are the three different neural network architectures? What are the basic
differences among them?
b) Describe the steps involved in error backpropagation learning.

7.a) Differentiate between feed forward CPN and full CPN. How CPN is useful for
data compression?
b) Describe the processes of storage of patterns by an ART training session.

8.a) Give the summary of learning methods.

b) Compare and contrast Biological neural network and a computer.

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 Set No.
Code No.: 421901
IV B.Tech II-Semester Examinations April 2003

NEURAL NETWORKS
2
(Electronics and Computer Engineering)

Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80

Answer any five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) Describe the features of biological Neutral Networks.

b) What are the three different neutral network architectures? What are the basic
differences among them?

2.a) Describe a perceptron neutron and give its limitations.

b) What is a linearly separable problem? Give an example. Example how to over go
with this problem.

3.a) Explain the training process of Kohonen layer.

b) What are the two layers of counter propagation network (CPN)? How are the two
layers of CPN trained.
4.a) Describe the two layers of ART for binary patterns.
b) Describe the search phase of ART classification.

5.a) Give the structures of a single layer recurrent network. What is the state of this
network?
b) Differentiate between Hop field nets and Boltzmann machine.

6.a) What is a artificial neural network? Describe the terminology of ANN.

b) Describe algorithm, based on Delta rule, for training perceptron.

7.a) Give the structure of a full counter propagation network. How does it differ from
feed forward CPN?
b) Describe the processes of storage of patterns by an ART training session.

8.a) Give performance analysis of Hop field network.

b) Describe, with the help of suitable flow, training a weight in the output layer in
the reverse pass of a error back propagation algorithm.

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 Set No.
Code No.: 421901
IV B.Tech II-Semester Examinations April 2003

NEURAL NETWORKS
3
(Electronics and Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80
Answer any five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) Describe some of the properties of single Neuron.
b) What is Neuron? Why are Neurons so slow?
c) Explain briefly the operation of a biological neural network

2.a) Describe the Rosneblatt’s perception model of an artificial neuron.

b) Distinguish between linearly separable and linearly unseparable problems. Give
examples for each.

3.a) What is a counter propagation network?

b) Give the structure of a feedforward counter propagation network. Give its normal
operation.

4.a) Give the structure of a Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) network and explain
the operation of ART for binary patterns.
b) Describe the comparison phases of ART classification.

5.a) Differentiate between recurrent and non-recurrent neutral networks. Give the
memory-based approach?
b) Give the structure of a Hopfield network. What is the advantage of associated
memory based approach?

6.a) What are the objectives of training neural networks? Describe different processes
used for training.
b) Describe different categories of learning. Under which category does perceptron-
learning come?

7.a) What are the two methods of training Kohonen layer and differentiate between
them.
b) Describe discrete time learning simulation of an example ART 1 machine
network.

8.a) Describe how recurrent network solve a traveling salesman problem.

b) Describe the process of training a weight in a hidden layer using error back
propagation algorithm.
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 Set No.
Code No.: 421901
IV B.Tech II-Semester Examinations April 2003

NEURAL NETWORKS
4
(Electronics and Computer Engineering)

Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80

Answer any five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) Compare the performance of computer biological neural networks.

b) Differentiate among the three following neural network architectures.
(i) Single Layer (ii) Multi Layer and (iii) Recurrent

2.a) What is perceptron? Can a single layer perceptron simulate a simple exclusive OR
function? Substitute your answer.
b) Describe the methods used to obtain two layer neural networks from singly layer
networks.

3.a) Give the feedforward counter propagation network. Describe the normal operation
of its two layers.
b) Describe the role of Kohonen layer in CPN? How is it trained?

4.a) Describe, briefly, the 3 major phases of ART classification processes.

b) Describe the performance issues of ART.

5.a) Give the structure of a Hopfield network and describe the networks operations.
b) Describe the Boltzmann machine technique for training generalized networks.

6.a) Why artificial neural networks? Give their characteristics.

b) Give the basic learning laws. What is the difference between learning equation
and learning law?

7.a) Give the structure of a feed forward CPN and give its applications.
b) Describe the characteristics and performance issues of ART.

8.a) Give the Bidirection associated memory and distinguish between

(i) Adaptive BAM (ii) Competitive BAM and (iii) Continuous BAM.
b) What are the criteria used to compare the performance of biological neural
network with that of computer brain.

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