TR on generalization available

[Dr L S Smith (Staff)]

Dear all:

We have a new TR available by ftp from here:

CCCN Technical report CCCN-21, December 1995.

A Theoretical Study of the Generalization Ability of Feed-Forward Neural  
Networks.

M J Roberts.

By making assumptions on the probability distribution of the potentials  
in a
feed-forward neural network we have derived lower bounds for the  
generalization ability of the network in terms of the number of training  
patterns.  The
results are consistent with simulations carried out on a simple  
geometrical function.

The URL is ftp://ftp.cs.stir.ac.uk/pub/tr/cccn/TR21.ps.Z

If you really can't access this hard copies are available, but only as a  
last resort.

Dr Leslie S. Smith
Dept of Computing and Mathematics, Univ of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland

lss at cs.stir.ac.uk   (NeXTmail welcome)
Tel (44) 1786 467435 Fax (44) 1786 464551
www http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~lss/