A NONINFORMATIVE PRIOR FOR NEURAL NETWORKS
Herbert Lee
Duke University
February 2000
While many implementations of Bayesian neural networks use large, complex hierarchical priors, in much of modern Bayesian statistics, noninformative (flat) priors are very common. This paper introduces a noninformative prior for feed-forward neural networks, describing several theoretical and practical advantages of this approach. Details of implementation via Markov chain Monte Carlo are included.
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