Paper available on neuroprose

[Brandyn]

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    The following paper is now available by anonymous FTP:

                            Fusion-Reflection
                        (Self-Supervised Learning)

                           Brandyn Jerad Webb
                         brandyn at brainstorm.com


                                ABSTRACT

  By  analyzing  learning  from  the  perspective of knowledge acquisition, a
  number  of  common limitations are overcome.  Modeling efficacy is proposed
  as an empirical measure of knowledge, providing  a  concrete,  mathematical
  means  of  "acquiring  knowledge"  via gradient ascent.  A specific network
  architecture is described, a hierarchical  analog  of  node-labeled  Hidden
  Markov  Models,  and  its  evaluation  and  learning  laws are derived.  In
  empirical studies using  a  hand-printed  character  recognition  task,  an
  unsupervised  network was able to discover n-gram statistics from groups of
  letter images, and to use these statistics to enhance its ability to  later
  identify individual letters.

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    A version of this paper was submitted to NIPS in May '93.

    If there is sufficient interest, and if it wouldn't violate neuroprose
etiquette, I could possibly make the C code available as well.

    -Brandyn (brandyn at brainstorm.com)