Re: Dynamic evaluation of layered networks
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- Subject: [mg109332] Re: Dynamic evaluation of layered networks
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:30:54 -0400 (EDT)
This leaves me confused. Do you mean that you are making a dynamic presentation and when you change the single input variable x you want to efficiently recalculate all the other values? Or are you also changing the f definitions? In the first case you could write a routine calcAll[x_] to efficiently calculate all the values when x is changed. Then use the second argument in Dynamic to calculate everything when x is changed. Dynamic[x, (x=#;calcAll[x])&] David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: OmniaOpera [mailto:OmniaOpera at _deletethistext_googlemail.com] I want to implement a multilayer feedforward network in such a way that changing value(s) in the input layer automatically causes reevaluation of only those parts of the network that are involved in the display of a result, and it seems to me that Dynamic does what I want. A simple 3-layer example would be: f1[x_] = x^2; f2[x_] := f1[x] + 1; f3a[x_] := f2[x] + 1; f3b[x_] := f2[x] - 1; Dynamic[{f3a[2], f3b[2]}] Any subsequent change to the f1[x_] = definition in the input layer automatically causes the above Dynamic to reevaluate. That's fine, except that this causes f2[x] to be evaluated twice, once for f3a[x] and once for f3b[x], which would be inefficient when generalised to very large layered networks in which the f functions are costly to evaluate. Unfortunately, the f2[x]:=f2[x]=... trick for memorising previously evaluated results doesn't help us here because it prevents the Dynamic from being sensitive to changes in the f1[x_] = definition in the input layer. There are messy ways of programming around this problem (e.g. using the memorisation trick but modified so you forget memorised results that are "out of date"), but is there any solution that finesses the problem by cleverly using Mathematica's evaluation engine? OO