National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Subject: Soft computing (EC 644)
Assignment-1

1. An example of the logistic function is defined by

whose limiting values are 0 and 1. Show that the derivatives of ( ) with respect to is given by

What is the value of its derivative at origin?

2. Find the input to the perceptron activation function for following input vectors and weights
vectors :

Calculate the output of neuron for the following two situations:

a) The neuron is bipolar thresholding unit.
b) The neuron is represented by a McCulloch-Pitts model.

3. The parity of a sample having n bits is 1 if an odd number of bits in that sample is equal to 1,
otherwise it is 0. Build a network of McCulloch–Pitts units capable of computing the parity
function of two, three, and four given bits.

4. A single input neuron has a weight of 1.3 and a bias of 3.0. What possible kinds of activation
functions, could this neuron have, if its output is given below? In each case, give the value of the
input that would produce these outputs.
I. 1.6
II. 1.0
III. 0.9963
IV. -1.0
5. Design a linear neuron for separating two one-dimensional data
.

Find the optimal values of the linear neuron weights, and draw the neuron with
numerical weights at corresponding weight connections between input layer and
neuron.

6. Consider the following two-dimensional patterns belonging to two classes A and B:

Design a perceptron that will separate the patterns.