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Consider the simple, single-input, single-output neural network shown

in Figure 1 below. Assuming sigmoidal hidden-unit and linear output-


unit activation functions what values of the weights will approximate
the function in Figure 2?

Figure 1 Figure 2

We can represent the given function in terms of the hard limiting functions (or threshold
activation functions-unipolar). Remember this we studied in Network Theory.

Recognizing that the threshold function can be approximated arbitrarily well by a


sigmoid function when is very large ( ), we can write

where denotes sigmoid and is a very high value. Now we can


write the given function in terms of sigmoidal activation functions.

for large

The output of the neural network shown in Figure 1 is

Compare this and the previous equation

, ….. so on. (You can also find another set of possible weight
values).

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