Ex parte SUTTON - Page 2




          Appeal No. 94-4200                                                           
          Application 07/979,139                                                       


          sequence utilizing an incrementally adjustable gain parameter.               


               The independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:                       
               1.  A computer system for machine learning of a time                    
          dependent pattern sequence y(t) comprising:                                  
          input means for receiving a plurality, indexed by i, of time                 
          dependent inputs x (t) and a meta-step-size parameter 2;                     
                            i                                                          
          calculation means for calculating from said time dependent                   
          inputs a predicted value, y , of said pattern sequence;*                                                 
          a computer memory associated with the said means for                         
          calculating;                                                                 
          said calculating means further including a learning rate, k ,                
                                                                      i                
          exponentially related to an incremental gain $ (t) and a                     
                                                         i                             
          derivation means for deriving the incremental gain $ (t) from                
                                                               i                       
          previous values of B (t) and having means for                                
                              1                                                        
          Initializing h , a per input memory parameter, to O, and                     
                        i                                                              
          weight coefficients, w , and $ , the incremental gaini       i                                              
          parameter, to chosen values, i=1,...,n,                                      
          Repeating for each new inputs (x ,...,x , y )the steps of:1     n   *                                 
               calculating,                                                            
                              n                                                        
                         y = E     w x                                                 
                                     i i                                               
                            i = 1                                                      
                                                                                      
                    calculating,                                                       
                          * = y  - y*                                                       
               Repeating for i = 1,...,n where k  is an input learning                 
                                                 i                                     
          rate and 2 is a positive constant denoted the                                
               meta-learning rate:                                                     

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