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From: kolen-j@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (john kolen)
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Subject: Re: Meta-nets
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Date: 19 Mar 90 13:24:49 GMT
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In article <33177@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> gblee@maui.UUCP (Geunbae Lee) writes:
>In article <68940@aerospace.AERO.ORG> abbott@itro3.aero.org (Russell J. Abbott) writes:
>>
>>Has there been any work on building neural nets that find weights for
>>neural nets?  For example, suppose one wanted to construct a neural-net
>>-- Russ abbott@itro3.aero.org
>
>I don't know you are familiar with Jordan Pollack's _cascaded neural net_
...
>I think it is in the 8th cogsci proceedings. (? sorry, my memory may not

It's the 9th cogsci proceedings.  Cascaded nets can be thought of
as two single-layer nets where the output of the first network
is the weights of the second network.  

John Kolen
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