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Backpropagation algorithm popularized in: Rumelhart, Hinton, Williams 1986 — Nature paper.
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[1] peer reviewed · Nature (Rumelhart, Hinton, Williams) · 1986-10-09
Learning representations by back-propagating errors“We describe a new learning procedure, back-propagation, for networks of neurone-like units. The procedure repeatedly adjusts the weights of the connections in the network so as to minimize a measure of the difference between the actual output vector of the net and the desired output vector.”
[2] docs · Wikipedia · 1986-10-09
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