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From: chrisley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Ron Chrisley)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Using deltas at the input layer
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Date: 31 Jul 90 21:43:16 GMT
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In <12039@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> demers@beowulf.ucsd.edu (David Demers) writes:

>I'm curious to know if anyone has done anything
>with computation of deltas for input units.  I'm
>aware of the paper by Risto Mikkulainen & Mike Dyer
>in 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School proceedings.

>Anyone else try anything using a normal backpropogation
>delta at the input layer?

>Thanks for any pointers,

>Dave DeMers
>demers@cs.ucsd.edu

I'm also interested in this idea.  I've read the Mikkulainen and Dyer paper,
and was surprised that they didn't reference William's paper in the 8th 
Cog Sci conference ('86): "Inverting a connectionist network mapping by back-
propagation of error".

Anybody have any other references?
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