ABSTRACT

Two variations of learning can be distinguished: one that requires a teacher and one that does not. We are going to talk about learning without a teacher in the next chapter. This chapter will focus on learning with a tutor. Such learning is based on giving a network examples of correct actions that it should learn to mimic. An example normally includes a specific set of input and output signals given by a teacher to show the expected response of the network for a given configuration of input data. The network watches the connection between input data and the required outcome and learns to imitate the rule.