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From: ravula@neuron.uucp (Ramesh Ravula)
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Subject: Re: Increase the speed of back prop.
Summary: LAL102@PSUVM.BITNET writes : how dos you increase the computation
	 speed of backpropagation
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Date: 22 Nov 89 15:27:32 GMT
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>LAL102@PSUVM.BITNET writes: how do you increase the computation speed of the
>backpropagation algorithm.

In his paper "Increased Rates of Convergence Through Learning Rate Adaptation",

(Neural Networks Vol. 1, pp. 295-307) the author Robert A. Jacobs gives some

heuristics which might help to acheive faster rates of convergence. I haven't

tried it yet, but you might. I will also be interested to know what kind of 

results you get.

Thanks


Ramesh Ravula
GE Medical Systems 
Waukesha, WI 53151.

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