Indeterminate Probability Neural Network
We propose a new general model called IPNN - Indeterminate Probability Neural Network, which combines neural network and probability theory together. In the classical probability theory, the calculation of probability is based on the occurrence of events, which is hardly used in current neural networks. In this paper, we propose a new general probability theory, which is an extension of classical probability theory, and makes classical probability theory a special case to our theory. Besides, for our proposed neural network framework, the output of neural network is defined as probability events, and based on the statistical analysis of these events, the inference model for classification task is deduced. IPNN shows new property: It can perform unsupervised clustering while doing classification. Besides, IPNN is capable of making very large classification with very small neural network, e.g. model with 100 output nodes can classify 10 billion categories. Theoretical advantages are reflected in experimental results.
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title={ Indeterminate Probability Theory },
author={ Tao Yang and Chuang Liu and Xiaofeng Ma and Weijia Lu and Ning Wu and Bingyang Li and Zhifei Yang and Peng Liu and Lin Sun and Xiaodong Zhang and Can Zhang },
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.11536},
year={ 2025 }
}