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Feature construction for back-propagation

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Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 1990)

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I would like to thank Gunnar Blix, Christopher Matheus, and Larry Rendell for their assistance in providing me with CITRE and the example data set.

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Piramuthu, S. (1991). Feature construction for back-propagation. In: Schwefel, HP., Männer, R. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature. PPSN 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 496. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0029762

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