Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!okstate!patil From: patil@a.cs.okstate.edu (Patil Rajendra Bha) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Network initialization Keywords: random, weights Message-ID: <5344@okstate.UUCP> Date: 2 Feb 90 22:22:31 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater Lines: 11 Hello, Does anybody konw about different methods of initialization of a network (different than randomizing the weights) before the training process is started, also any numerical/ stastical techniques to find different properties of datasets, like symmetry(XOR) and other which can help doing prepreocessing on the dataset before training in order to reduce the training time. Thanks, Rajendra, OSU(OK).