Recipe-files

A recipe-file contains a concise verbose description of a the networks construction. The format is flexible enough to allow for the specification of very diverse architectures. As an example, the recipe file used to create the ANN shown in figure 6.1 will be given:

First, a few remarks:

• Only non-empty lines and non-remark lines are processed (remark-lines begin with a %);
• The first line should indicate the number of layers in the network, including the input and output layers;
• After that, each layer is specified by two or more lines.

The first line of a layer specification should always give the type of the layer. Known types are:

• INPUT
• FEATURE_MAP
• SUBSAMPLING_MAP
• HIDDEN
• OUTPUT

The first layer should always be an input layer, the last an output layer; the number of layers between these can be arbitrarily large. The type of the layer is then used to determine what information is necessary regarding the construction of the layer. These types will be discussed below.