Re: rbp

["Randall C. O'Reilly" <oreilly@grey.colorado.edu>]

"Fiona M Richardson" <F.1.Richardson@herts.ac.uk> writes:
> I was wondering whether anyone has a project in rbp or has used rbp to build
> a network that generates sequences of events (static input, sequence of
> outputs). Basically, I have been attempting to set up my own projects in rbp
> (having previously examined the example in the demo) and my network seems
> unable to learn the (somewhat simple) task I have set it. I have read the
> manual and tweaked parameters repeatedly to no avail. I have also attempted
> to rescale my simulation to make it smaller (it seems to be okay for
> processing a very small number of simple patterns - but add the slightest
> complexity and it fails to learn). I believe that there must be something
> I'm not doing right. If there's anyone out there who can give me any hints
> or has an example it'd make me very happy!

I haven't done this particular kind of problem but I've done several
other somewhat challenging problems with rbp and it seems to work, but
getting the params right is key.  FWIW, you can download the following
project and see if the params therein help you out at all:

ftp://grey.colorado.edu/pub/oreilly/misc/rbp_example.proj.gz

				- Randy