Weijters, Ton
Learning Statistically Neutral Tasks without Expert Guidance
Weijters, Ton, Bosch, Antal van den, Postma, Eric O.
He intended to build a model mimicking the behavior of the autistic savant without the need either to develop arithmetical skills or to encode explicit knowledge about regularities in the structure of dates. A standard multilayer network trained with backpropagation [6] was not able to solve the date-calculation task. Although the network was able to learn the examples used for training, it did not manage to generalize to novel date-day combinations.