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[David Wolpert]

Javier Movellan wonders about the relative "advantages of distributed
over local representations". He asks of members of the net, "Do you
have concrete examples in your work where they did a better job than
local representations?

I have concrete examples in which they do worse - sometimes far worse.
See references below.


		David Wolpert (dhw at tweety.lanl.gov)




D. H. Wolpert, "A benchmark for how well neural nets generalize",
Biological Cybernetics, 61 (1989), 303-315.

D. H. Wolpert, "Constructing a generalizer superior to NETtalk via
a mathematical theory of generalization", Neural Networks, 3 (1990),
445-452.

D. H. Wolpert, "Improving the performance of generalizers via
time-series-like pre-processing of the learning set", Los Alamos
Report LA-UR-91-350, submitted to IEEE PAMI.