NIPS-92 paper in neuroprose.

[Bhaskar Dasgupta]

The following file has been placed in connectionists, under the name
georg.nips92.ps.Z (to appear in NIPS-92 proceedings). Any questions or
comments will be highly appreciated.

      The Power of Approximating: a Comparison of Activation Functions

		Bhaskar DasGupta (a)     Georg Schnitger (b,c)

(a) Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 
    MN 55455-0159

(b) Department of Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, 
    University Park, PA 16802

(c) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Paderborn, 
    Postfach 1621, 4790 Paderborn, Germany

                    ABSTRACT
		    --------
We compare activation functions in terms of the approximation
power of their feedforward nets.  We consider the case of analog as well as
boolean input.

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The paper is exactly 8 pages (no proofs appear due to space limitation).

Many thanks to Jordan Pollack for maintaining this list.

Bhaskar Dasgupta
Department of Computer and Information Science         
University of Minnesota               
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0159        email :dasgupta at cs.umn.edu