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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: Degrees of freedom in a net
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In article <9QJUBJCC@venus.nbg.sub.org>, alex@venus.nbg.sub.org (Alexander Adolf) writes:
|> ... In a
|> fully coonected pure feed-forward net, I'd suggest that the degree of
|> freedom is the number of links between the input layer and the first
|> hidden layer. All other links won't count because the're influenced by
|> the input layer's links.

How about some proofs or simulations instead of sheer speculation?

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