Deep Learning

Summary: This paper includes a brief introduction to and history of machine learning as well as breif summaries of topics in the field.

Abstract: We present an application of back-propagation networks to hand-written digit recognition. Minimal preprocessing of the data was required, but architecture of the network was highly constrained and specifically designed for the task. The input of the network consists of normalized images of isolated digits. The method has 1% error rate and about a 9% reject rate on zipcode digits provided by the US Postal Service.