Applications

These notes are now complete for Winter, 1999.

Required readings

Chapter 9 page 265-275 (Nettalk, auto-encoders and PCA, character recognition), and 4 articles from coursepack:
  1. "Neural network approaches to solving hard problems", by Base & Liang. Skip sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.4.2, 10.8 and 10.9.
  2. Mind Like A Steel Trap, by Rose.
  3. Neural Networks in Real World Applications, section on Neural Networks for Speech Processing and Consumer Electronics, by Mozer.
  4. Neural Networks Expand SP's Horizons, by Haykin, esp. case studies 2 and 3.

Further reading

As background to Mind Like a Steel Trap, the paper by Jacbos, Jordan, Nowlan and Hinton, "Adaptive Mixtures of Local Experts" is included in the coursepack.

Applications of back-propagation networks


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