Question

If some of output patterns in pattern association problem are identical then problem shifts to?

(a) pattern storage problem

(b) pattern classification problem

(c) pattern mapping problem

(d) none of the mentioned

This question was posed to me in an interview.

The origin of the question is Pattern Association in division Feedforward Neural Networks of Neural Networks

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) pattern classification problem

To explain: Because then number of distinct output can be viewed as class labels.