NDLI: A theory of adaptive systems

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Author	Abramson, N.
Copyright Year	1984
Description	Author affiliation: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (Abramson, N.)
Abstract	This paper presents a survey of some recent results in the theory of adaptive decision making systems. When the statistics describing a given observation are completely known a decision rule merely provides a fixed mapping from the observation space to the space of possible actions. When the statistics are unknown, however, it is possible to employ a sequence of observations in order to improve the average performance of the system on each observation. Such a system may be said to "learn" the statistical description of the observations it is taking. The learning observations may be presented to the system either with or without information concerning the specific situation which gave rise to the observations. For example in character recognition the observations are usually presented to the system together with information specifying each learning observation as a sample of some specific character; in random channel applications on the other hand the more common situation is one in which the receiver obtains observations of previous transmissions through the channel but the receiver does not know which transmitter signal gave rise to each observation. The first situation is known as learning with a teacher while the second is known as learning without a teacher. Iterative solutions suitable for machine implementation will be presented for both of these problems. The question of the size of the system or the amount of the computation necessary to implement these adaptive systems will be emphasized. For any given amount of data to be processed (i.e., for any given dimension of the observation) there exist computational techniques for simplifying the calculations to be performed. The use of sufficient statistics can greatly reduce the amount of storage necessary for the system. In addition it is sometimes possible to evaluate the effect of taking varying amounts of data (i.e., of varying the dimemsion at the observation). For example, one surprising result is that increasing the dimension of the observation (i.e., taking additional measurements) may result in a degredation of the average performance of the adaptive system.
Starting Page	151
Ending Page	151
File Size	80576
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1109/SAP.1964.271140
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1964-10-19
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Adaptive systems Decision making Character recognition Transmitters Statistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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