Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition

Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition — applied a convolutional neural network trained with backpropagation to zip code recognition

Why it matters

An early case of combining weight sharing with backpropagation to apply a neural network to a real-world task

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Pressen.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network

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