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From: krulwich@ils.nwu.edu (Bruce Krulwich)
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Subject: Re: Using NN to program NN
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Date: 8 Feb 90 20:02:47 GMT
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In-reply-to: ajb@itivax.iti.org (Al Boehnlein)

In article <4914@itivax.iti.org>, ajb@itivax (Al Boehnlein) writes:
>Has any one ever though about using a neural net to
>program a neural net.  It would seem that a neural net
>might be just the thing to use to determine what weights
>to change, and how much to change them, when adding
>a new example to a network.

This was discussed by Lapedes and Farber under the title "master-slave
networks," in an article in the 1986 Snowbird Conference.

It was also discussed by Jordan Pollack under the title "cascaded neural nets"
in the '87 Cog Sci conference, and probably also in his thesis.


Bruce Krulwich
Institute for the Learning Sciences