Code No: RR410405 Set No.

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IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electronics &
Instrumentation Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Electronics &
Telematics)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) What are Artificial neural networks? What are their characteristics?
(b) Explain the historical development of Artificial neural networks? [16]

2. (a) Discuss the requirements of Learning Laws.

(b) What are different types of Hebbian learning? Explain basic Hebbian learning?
[8+8]

3. (a) What is perceptron?

(b) Differentiate between perceptron representation and perceptron training? [6+10]

4. (a) Explain Rosenblatts perceptron model?

(b) Differentiate between single layer and multi-layer perceptrons? [8+8]

5. State and explain the Ex-OR problem? Also explain how to overcome it. [16]

6. (a) Explain Universal Approximation theorem.

(b) Explain about the Curse of dimensionality. [8+8]

7. A Maxnet consists of three inhibitory weights as 0.25. The net is initially activated
by the input signals [0.1 0.3 0.9]. The activation function of the neuron is

X X>0
F (X) =
0 otherwise

Find the final winning neutron. [16]

8. What are the direct applications of neural networks? Why are they called direct
applications? [16]

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Code No: RR410405 Set No. 2
IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electronics &
Instrumentation Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Electronics &
Telematics)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. Compare and contrast the biological neuron and artificial neuron. [16]

2. What are the basic learning laws? Explain the weight updation rules in each
learning law. [16]

3. (a) What is perceptron?

(b) Differentiate between perceptron representation and perceptron training? [6+10]

4. (a) Explain Rosenblatts perceptron model?

(b) Differentiate between single layer and multi-layer perceptrons? [8+8]

5. State and explain the Ex-OR problem? Also explain how to overcome it. [16]

6. Write solution of XOR problem using Radial Basis Function network. [16]

7. (a) Explain how a competitive learning network with linear units performs a short
term memory task.
(b) State the rule of competitive learning? [10+6]

8. (a) What are the important applications in speech area?

(b) Discuss the use of feedback neural network to convert English text to speech.
[8+8]

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Code No: RR410405 Set No. 3
IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electronics &
Instrumentation Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Electronics &
Telematics)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆

1. (a) What are Artificial neural networks? Where the neural networks implemented?
(b) Distinguish between supervised and unsupervised training? [8+8]

2. What are the basic learning laws? Explain the weight updation rules in each
learning law. [16]

3. State and prove the perceptron convergence algorithm. [16]

4. (a) Explain Rosenblatts perceptron model?

(b) Differentiate between single layer and multi-layer perceptrons? [8+8]

5. (a) Compute the Hessian matrix and determine whether it is positive definite for
the function E(x) = (X1 − X2 )2 + (1 − X1 )2
(b) Discuss the network pruning techniques. [6+10]

6. (a) Write about generalized radial basis networks.

(b) Write approximation properties of radial basis function network. [8+8]

7. (a) Explain briefly about Hamming network.

(b) What is the purpose of learning vector quantization? [6+10]

8. Discuss the application of Artificial Neural Network on the field of control system
and optimization. [16]

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Code No: RR410405 Set No. 4
IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electronics &
Instrumentation Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Electronics &
Telematics)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆

1. Explain about the important Architectures of neural network. [16]

2. What are the basic learning laws? Explain the weight updation rules in each
learning law. [16]

3. (a) What is perceptron?

(b) Differentiate between perceptron representation and perceptron training? [6+10]

4. (a) Explain Rosenblatts perceptron model?

(b) Differentiate between single layer and multi-layer perceptrons? [8+8]

5. (a) Write about the approximation made in Hessian based pruning techniques.
(b) Explain Weight decay procedure in complexity regularization. [8+8]

6. (a) Write about generalized radial basis networks.

(b) Write approximation properties of radial basis function network. [8+8]

7. (a) Define Firing Rule?

(b) What is a similarity Map? [8+8]

8. What neural network ideas are used in the development of phonetic typewriter?
[16]

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