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From: sfp@mars.ornl.gov (Phil Spelt)
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Subject: Re: Looking for chaos theory stuff, email addr. Dr. Walter Freeman
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Date: 29 Apr 91 13:17:28 GMT
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In article <2818d823.3155@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> dgross@blackbird.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross) writes:
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>	I'm looking into how chaos theory might help out in the
>	development of neural nets.  If you have any information
>	about this, or can point me to some information, please
>	do.
>
You fail to specify what you mean by "help out", but if I interpret this
correctly, you should look up an article by M. E. Manausa & R. C. Lacher, 
from FL State Univ.  The article is entitled: "Chaos and the step-size dilemma in the back-prop learning algorithm".  It deals with the fractal nature of
convergence as a function of step size and gain in the learning algorithm of
pack-prop nets on two different problems.  The article appears in the
proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Neural Networks (WNN-AIND 91), held at
Auburn University 11-13 February 1991.

Hope this helps.
 
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Phil Spelt, Cognitive Systems & Human Factors Group  sfp@epm.ornl.gov
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