From: Mitchell Porter (mitchtemporarily@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 03:50:26 MST
Noise can prevent invalid generalization ("overfitting"):
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part3/section-2.html
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~schraudo/NNcourse/overfitting.html
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/bishop94training.html
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/448824.html
And noise can make a weak signal detectable ("stochastic resonance"):
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StochasticResonance.html
http://flux.aps.org/meetings/YR9596/BAPSMAR96/mar96/vpr/A5.04.html
http://www.umbrars.com/sr/introsr.htm
The relation between P and NP (complexity classes) might
be the ultimate context here.
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