Try it, you'll like it

[Ron Cole]

Tired of playing with learning and momentum constants?  
Tired of waiting for weeks for your network to converge?
Try OPT, a simulator that uses conjugate gradient optimization
to train fully connected feedforward networks with backpropagation.

OPT is written in C.  
It is remarkably easy to use.

To obtain opt:

1. ftp to cse.ogc.edu

2. login as "anonymous" with any password

3. cd to "/ogc2/guest/ftp/pub/nnvowels"

4. Look in README.

OPT was written by Etienne Barnard at Carnegie-Mellon University.
For more complete documentation, including figures describing
conjugate gradient optimization, send mail to vincew at cse.ogc.edu.

Enjoy

-- Ron