Due March 25, 2005.
Read the following sections.
Items 1 through 3 are required.
D. E. Rumelhart, G. E. Hinton, and R. J. Williams,
"Learning Internal Representations by Error Propagation,"
Chapter 8 in D. E. Rumelhart, J. L. McClelland, ed.,
Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the
Microstructure of Cognition, Volume 1: Foundations,
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987, pages 318362.
This chapter is also reprinted in James A. Anderson
and Edward Rosenfeld, ed., Neurocomputing: Foundations of Research,
MIT Press, 1988, pages 675695.
D. E. Rumelhart, G. E. Hinton, and R. J. Williams,
"Learning representations by back-propagating errors",
Nature, volume 323, 1986, pp. 533536.
Also reprinted in in James A. Anderson
and Edward Rosenfeld, ed., Neurocomputing: Foundations of Research,
MIT Press, 1988, pages 696699.
Christopher M. Bishop,
Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995,
Chapter 1 (pages 128) and Chapter 4
(pages 116160.)