Weight Space

[Mahesan Niranjan]

> From: INS_ATGE%JHUVMS.BITNET%VMA.CC.CMU.EDU at murtoa.cs.mu.oz
> Date:     Tue, 22 Aug 89 18:23 EST
> Subject:  Neural Net Archive?
>
> Has anyone considered (or possibly created) an archive site for
> trained neural networks?  Why spend thousands of epochs of learning
> to create you network weights, only to throw them away after your research
> is done?  If anyone feels such an archive site may be of use, please send
> me email (as it would be helpful to me as I lobby for a site at Hopkins).
>
> -Thomas Edwards

I can imagine a day when weight values will be available for sale!
Companies with number crunching power might train networks and 'sell'
the values (possibly at reduced prices for academic institutions!).

It may also be possible to 'buy' quantised weights at cheap rates!!

niranjan