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[Robert B Allen]

Subject:  Report Available - Connectionist State Machines

Connectionist State Machines
Robert B. Allen
Bellcore, November 1988


Performance of sequential adaptive networks on a number of  tasks
was  explored.   For example the ability to respond to continuous
sequences was demonstrated first with a network which was trained
to  flag  a given subsequence and, in a second study, to generate
responses to transitions conditional upon  previous  transitions.
Another set of studies demonstrated that the networks are able to
recognize legal strings drawn from simple  context-free  grammars
and  regular expressions.  Finally, sequential networks were also
shown to be able to be trained to generate long strings.  In some
cases, adaptive schedules were introduced to gradually extend the
network's processing of strings.


Contact:  rba at bllcore.com
          Robert B. Allen
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          Bellcore
          Morristown, NJ  07960-1910