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NeuroCOLT Technical Report NC-TR-95-041

A General Feedforward Neural Network Model

Cedric GEGOUT, Bernard GIRAU and Fabrice ROSSI
Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon,
Ecole Normale Sup\'erieur de Paris
THOMSON-CSF/SDC/DPR/R4, Bagneux
France

Abstract
In this paper, we generalize a model proposed by L\'eon Bottou and Patrick Gallinari. This model gives a general mathematical description of feedforward neural networks, for which standard models, such as Multi-Layer Perceptrons or Radial Basis Function based neural networks, are only particular cases. A generalized back-propagation, which gives an efficient way to compute the differential of the function computed by the neural network, is introduced and carefully proved. We also introduce an evaluation of the theoretical time needed to compute the differential with the help of both direct algorithm and back-propagation.

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