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From: loren@ingrid.llnl.gov (Loren Petrich)
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Subject: Publicly Available Neural Net Software
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Date: 12 Nov 90 23:35:08 GMT
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	I would like to ask about obtaining public-domain Neural Net
software -- I found some by anonymous ftp to cs.rochester.edu in the
directory /pub/simulate. Have other people left public-domain software
available by anonymous ftp?

	My comments on the Rochester package: It is a generalized NN
package with the capability to construct, connect, and display
information about NN units. Beyond that, the only "common" NN
architecture it has are some Backprop routines. I am disappointed that
it does not contain instructions on how to set up ART, Kohonen feature
maps, or other architectures.

	What I might be most interested in is some modification of
Backprop with (1) arbitrary configuring of hidden layers [not just
input->hidden->output] and (2) some higher-order learning algorithm
[straight gradient descent just is not fast enough]. I am willing to
settle for one with only (2) if (1) is not available.


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