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Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition

Yann LeCun, Bernhard E. Boser, John S. Denker, D. Henderson, Richard E. Howard, W. Hubbard, L. D. Jackel

Neural Computation, 1989

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Abstract

The ability of learning networks to generalize can be greatly enhanced by providing constraints from the task domain. This paper demonstrates how such constraints can be integrated into a backpropagation network through the architecture of the network. This approach has been successfully applied to the recognition of handwritten zip code digits provided by the U.S. Postal Service. A single network learns the entire recognition operation, going from the normalized image of the character to the final classification.

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