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Centering Neural Network Gradient Factors

N. Schraudolph

1996 · DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49430-8_11
Neural Networks · 66 Citations

TLDR

This work proposes centering the slope of hidden unit activation functions as well, which removes the linear component of backpropagated error and improves credit assignment in networks with shortcut connections.