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From: ins_atge@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Thomas G Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: looking for reference on conjugate gradient
Summary: Probably Not
Keywords: conjugate gradient, feed-forward training
Message-ID: <6295@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 1 Sep 90 00:22:35 GMT
References: <1217@carol.fwi.uva.nl>
Reply-To: ins_atge@jhunix.UUCP (Thomas G Edwards)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <1217@carol.fwi.uva.nl> smagt@fwi.uva.nl (Patrick van der Smagt) writes:
>I am looking for THE reference (if existing) on conjugate
>gradient training of feed-forward networks.  Is the first
>implementer

Good question.  There is also

A.H. Kramer and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "Efficient Parallel Learning
Algorithms for Neural Networks."  In _Advances_in_Neural_Information_
Processing_Systems_1 (D.S. Touretzky, editor), pages 40-48.  Morgan Kaufmann,
San Mateo, CA, 1989.

Compares fixed step size gradient descent with steepest-descent and
conjugate-gradient.

-Thomas Edwards