Neural Network with Integer inputs/outputs

How do do you configure MATLAB's neural networks eg NARX to handle integer inputs and outputs?

[Greg Heath]

What are mixed integer problems?

Honestly, I don't know!

[JMP Phillips]

It simply means where some or all of the inputs or outputs to the Neural net must be integers.

Answer 1

[Greg Heath]

From what I can discern from searching the internet. The answer is

 No.

The best you can do is round some of the output variables.

Hope this helps.

Greg

[JMP Phillips]

possibly a Hopfield Neural network as applied to combinatorial optimization. However it must be able to handle both integers and floating points which I don't think it can.