Learning with Linear Models

CSC 261 - Artificial Intelligence - Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Select the sentence from today's reading that you feel best illustrates the sensitivity of performance to the learning rate. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain why you selected this sentence.
  2. How would you explain the meaning and intuition of the perceptron learning rule to a colleague who is a (non-CS) science major?
  3. Today's reading makes several distinctions between learning and classification with the Threshold and Logistic functions. Select the sentence that you feel makes the most important disinction between them. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain why you selected this distinction.
  4. Select the sentence from today's reading that you feel best describes the benefits of multilayer feed-forward neural networks. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain why you selected this sentence.