Is It Challenging to Write a Perceptron Learning Algorithm in C++?

[Math Is Hard]

Have you ever written a perceptron learning algorithm?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron

Which language did you use? Would it be overly complicated to try to write it in C++ (compared with, say, MATLAB)?

 

[alastor]

Hello,

yes, I have. I wrote it in C++ and it was not so hard. Simple perceptron is not very hard problem. Harder ist to write backprogation algorithm for a forward or recurent neural network.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Thanks for your reply. I am still trying to work it out on paper, and now I can see how a program that is specialized for matrices could have an advantage over implementing it in C++.

I have been trying to diagram out a simple two-input perceptron that will take a training set to learn the logic for OR, but I have been getting stuck. If I can't figure it out in a couple of days, I'll put up a diagram and some pseudocode and maybe you could help me figure out where I am going wrong. I agree - this should be simple!

 

[Hurkyl]

Coding up artificial intelligence is really neat when it works.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Coding up artificial intelligence is really neat when it works.

I've looked at the course websites for various AI classes and some of the projects they do look really fun. One team had created a program that took scanned pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and put them together. I thought that was very cool!

 

[lmflores79]

Hi:

I have the perceptron code in JAVA. Is a very simple proof of concepto. I give you a link to my site. The page is in spanish but you can download it from the very bottom of the page.

http://www.tecnohobby.net/ppal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22:perceptron&catid=42:rna&Itemid=19

Hope it is helpfull.