Cascade-Correlation, etc

[Jordan B Pollack]

Scott's description of his method and the need for a convergence
proof, reminded me of the line of research by Meir & Domany (Complex
Sys 2 1988) and Nadal & Mezard (Int.Jrnl. Neural Sys 1,1,1989).  In a
paper definitely related to theirs (which I cannot find), someone
proved (by construction) that each hidden unit added on top of a
feedforward TLU network could monotonically decrease the number of
errors for arbitrary-fan-in, single-output boolean functions. This
result might be generalizable to CC networks.

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