Tech Report Announcement

[Josiah Hoskins]

The following tech report is available.

		Speeding Up Artificial Neural Networks
			in the "Real" World

			 Josiah C. Hoskins

	A new heuristic, called focused-attention backpropagation (FAB)
	learning, is introduced. FAB enhances the backpropagation pro-
	cedure by focusing attention on the exemplar patterns that are
	most difficult to learn. Results are reported using FAB learning
	to train multilayer feed-forward artificial neural networks to
	represent real-valued elementary functions. The rate of learning
	observed using FAB is 1.5 to 10 times faster than backpropagation.



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