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From: wstevens@uceng.UC.EDU (william stevenson)
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Subject: [neural-nets] Re: REFERENCES NEEDED [Neuron Digest V6 #62]
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Date: 26 Oct 90 04:43:10 GMT
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[edited.  --Ed]

>I am looking for references on automatic modifcation of structure of a
>neural network by learning algorithms(i.e. automatically add some links
>and nodes to a neural network or remove them from the neural network.

Try Scott Fahlman's Cascade Correlation: adds nodes as needed.  Contact
him at fahlman@cs.cmu.edu; software (both cascade and quickprop)
available by ftp at pt.cs.cmu.edu, in directory
/afs/cs/project/connect/code (you must go to this directory directly)

I got his reports too, I'm not sure if they're in the same directory.

William

<excerpt>
;;; For an explanation of this algorithm and some results, see "The
;;; Cascade-Correlation Learning Architecture" by Scott E. Fahlman and
;;; Christian Lebiere in D. S. Touretzky (ed.), "Advances in Neural
;;; Information Processing Systems 2", Morgan Kaufmann, 1990.  A somewhat
;;; longer version is available as CMU Computer Science Tech Report
;;; CMU-CS-90-100.
;;;
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