CSSE 413: Day 5

Outline

• Multi-layer feedforward networks
• Backpropagation
• Pattern recognition in FFNets
• NETtalk

Materials

• Slides on feed-forward networks and backpropagation
• Narration of slides.
• XOR worksheet using a network without bias
• XOR worksheet using a network with bias
• Pattern recognition in a simple FFnet
• Excerpt of Nettalk audio recording
• Nettalk paper by Sejnowski and Rosenberg.

Assignments

• Day 8, BC: Summarize The NYTimes article The Great A.I. Awakening and submit it to the appropriate drop-box on Moodle. When it comes to the length, 350 - 400 words seems to work well for the purposes of our class. We will discuss this article in class.