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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 21 No. 4, pp. 721-732


Geometrical Perspective on Learning Behavior


Cheng-Yuan Liou, Jau-Chi Huang and Yen-Ting Kuo

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 
National Taiwan University 
Taipei, 106 Taiwan 
E-mail: cyliou@csie.ntu.edu.tw


    This paper constructs a geometrical perspective to justify the slow learning period and fast learning period during training. It plots the error surfaces and the solution spaces in the input space for a single neuron with two inputs. It records various training paths in this space using the back-propagation (BP) training algorithm [6]. It finds the relations between the learning curve and training path.


Keywords: multilayer network, back-propagation learning, neural network, momentum method, premature saturation

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