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From: uh311ae@sunmanager.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: The first few epochs in BP
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Date: 7 Apr 91 19:15:32 GMT
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Having a gradient search minimizer jumping around a little bit during
start up is absolutely normal - you should not give a damn about it.
You should rather give a damn that it STOPS jumping later, because it
usually is just heading straight into a local minimum ...

Cheers ! Rick@vee.lrz-muenchen.de

Henrik Klagges, STM group at U of Munich, FRG