Book Announcement: Tricks of the Trade

[Jenny Orr]

Dear collegues,

The following book is now available:

Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade, 
edited by Genevieve B. Orr and Klaus-Robert M\"uller
LNCS 1524, Springer Heidelberg (1998)

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/neuralnw/index.html (contains
ordering and other information)

Some background information: The idea for this book dates back to our
1996 NIPS workshop on tricks of the trade
(http://www.first.gmd.de/persons/Mueller.Klaus-Robert/nipsws.htm).

People who work with neural networks acquire, through experience and
word-of-mouth, techniques and heuristics that help them successfully
apply neural networks to difficult real world problems. Often these
tricks are theoretically well motivated. Sometimes they are the result
of trial and error. However, their most common link is that they are
usually hidden in people's heads or in the back pages of space
constrained conference papers. As a result newcomers to the field
waste much time wondering why their networks train so slowly and
perform so poorly.

The tricks book tried to collect all this interesting and useful
information about how to train neural networks.

For a glimpse on the table of content see: 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/neuralnw/contents.pdf

Contributors are: 
Anderson, Back, Bottou, Burns, Caruana, Denker, Finke, Flake, Fritsch,
Giles, Hansen, Hirzinger, Horn, Intrator, Larsen, Lawrence, LeCun,
Lyon, M\"uller, Moody, Naftaly, Neuneier, Orr, Plate, Prechelt,
R\"ognvaldsson, Schraudolph, Simard, van der Smagt, Svarer, Tsoi,
Victorri, Webb, Yaeger, Zimmermann.

Best wishes,

Klaus-Robert M\"uller  & Genevieve B. Orr