Rattray, Magnus and Saad, David (1998). Transients and asymptotics of natural gradient learning. IN: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. Niklasson, L.; Boden, M. and Ziemke, T. (eds) Springer.
Abstract
We analyse natural gradient learning in a two-layer feed-forward neural network using a statistical mechanics framework which is appropriate for large input dimension. We find significant improvement over standard gradient descent in both the transient and asymptotic phases of learning.
| Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1599-1_21 |
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| Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI) Aston University (General) |
| Additional Information: | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | natural gradient,statistical mechanics,gradient descent,transient,asymptotic |
| ISBN: | 3540762639 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2025 07:05 |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2009 13:30 |
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PURE Output Type: | Chapter |
| Published Date: | 1998-09-01 |
| Authors: |
Rattray, Magnus
Saad, David ( 
0000-0001-9821-2623)
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