Effect of initial values in simple perception

The initial value of the network weight vector can contain a large amount of information. One of the possibilities to use this information is to utilise a weighted combination of initial and final values of the weights. An alternative is the early stopping. To utilise an information contained in the initial weight vector W/spl circ//sub 0/ one needs to know the accuracy of determination of W/spl circ//sub 0/ and W/spl circ//sub 1/, a final weight. The analytical expression of an optimal weighting factor greatly depends on the parameter estimation schema as well as on the learning-set size. Utilisation of the additional validation-set is a universal method.