TY - CONF ID - epprod41 UR - http://eprints.utas.edu.au/41/ A1 - Vamplew, P A1 - Adams, A Y1 - 1994/// N2 - 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. KW - recurrent neural networks KW - pre-training KW - weight initialisation TI - Neural Transplant Surgery: An Approach to Pre-training Recurrent Networks AV - public M2 - University of Queensland T2 - Fifth Australian Conference on Neural Networks ER -