@inproceedings{epprod41, booktitle = {Fifth Australian Conference on Neural Networks}, month = {["lib/utils:month\verb1_141" not defined]}, title = {Neural Transplant Surgery: An Approach to Pre-training Recurrent Networks}, author = {P Vamplew and A Adams}, year = {1994}, keywords = {recurrent neural networks, pre-training, weight initialisation}, url = {http://eprints.utas.edu.au/41/}, abstract = {Partially-recurrent networks have advantages over strictly feed-forward networks for certain spatiotemporal pattern classification or prediction tasks. However networks involving recurrent links are generally more difficult to train than their non-recurrent counterparts. In this paper we demonstrate that the costs of training a recurrent network can be greatly reduced by initialising the network prior to training with weights 'transplanted' from a non-recurrent architecture.} }