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From: mgv@usceast.UUCP (Marco Valtorta)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Maximum likelihood estimators for weights in feed-forward nets
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Date: 11 Apr 90 15:41:10 GMT
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In article <437@ohsuhcx.ohsu.edu> spackman@ohsu.edu (Kent A. Spackman) writes:
>
>I'm looking for references to articles that have anything to do with
>the relationship between back-propagation and maximum likelihood
>estimation, such as is done by logistic regression.
>
>Kent A. Spackman
>Biomedical Information Communication Center
>Oregon Health Sciences University
>Portland, OR 97201

You may want to read "A Statistical Approach to Learning and Generalization
in Layered Neural Networks," by Levin, Tishby, and Solla, in the COLT '89
Proceedings, pp.245-260.  The Proceedings are published by Morgan Kaufmann.


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