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direwolf20today at 1:34 AM1 replyview on HN

There was once a neural network that used dreaming phases for regularisation. It would run in reverse on random data and whatever activated was down–weighted.


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ericdfoleytoday at 3:15 AM

That's the wake sleep algorithm for undirected graphical models.

Hinton had a course on Coursera around 2015 that covered a lot of pre NN deep learning. Sadly I don't think it's up anymore.

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