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From: mderksen@sci.kun.nl (M. Derksen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Backprop Weight Initialization
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Date: 7 Dec 90 16:38:59 GMT
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> I remember seeing a reference to an aritcle which dealt with the effects
> of random initialization of weights in a backporpagation network.  I believe
> the article reported that it *does* make a difference how the weight matrix 
> is initialized.

> If anyone knows what this reference is (or any others addressing this problem,
> i would appreciate hearing from you, either by email or posting to this BB.

> Thanks, Phil Spelt

Look for example in:

  D.G. Lee, Jr., Prelimininary results of applying neural networks to ship
  image recognition. Proc. Int`l. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks, 
  Washington D.C., II:576 (1989).

Marco Derksen.

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