Combining TD-learning with Cascade-correlation Networks

Proceedings, Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 632-639

  Rivest, François ^a   Precup, Doina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; CACHE MEMORY; CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CORRELATION METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CASCADE-CORRELATION NETWORKS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (RL); TEMPORAL-DIFFERENCE (TD) LEARNING;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 1942516829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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