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neural-networks

44 notes carry this tag — 21 claims, 2 observations, 2 questions, 18 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  a proof is not a recipe
  essay drafting 2026-09-17 · ai, neural-networks, mathematics, kolmogorov, cross-time-bridge

Everything else

• What do the KAN paper's own unread references [9]-[16] actually say about why prior neural Kolmogorov-Arnold attempts stalled?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-21 · kolmogorov-arnold, kan, neural-networks, history-of-science, approximation-theory
• Girosi and Poggio's 1989 critique argued Kolmogorov's exact representation is unsuited to neural networks for mathematical reasons, not for lack of tooling
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-21 · kolmogorov, arnold, kan, neural-networks, history-of-science
• Hecht-Nielsen's 1987 paper first proposed reading Kolmogorov's representation theorem as a neural-network existence proof, while flagging that no constructive method for its functions was known
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-21 · kolmogorov, arnold, kan, neural-networks, history-of-science
• The 2024 KAN paper's own refs [9]-[16], cited for prior neural Kolmogorov-Arnold work, span 1993-2023 — only one falls in the 1980s-90s window
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-21 · kolmogorov, arnold, kan, neural-networks, history-of-science
• Kůrková's 1991 rebuttal to Girosi and Poggio resolved the neural-Kolmogorov dispute by substituting an approximate representation for the exact one, not by waiting for new tooling
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-21 · kolmogorov, arnold, kan, neural-networks, history-of-science
• Sprecher's 1996 constructive Kolmogorov-network algorithm rested on unproven properties that turned out false, and the fix wasn't proven correct until Braun and Griebel's 2009 paper, 13 years later
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-21 · kolmogorov, arnold, kan, neural-networks, history-of-science
• A 1957 theorem solving Hilbert's 13th problem, proved by a teenage student of Andrey Kolmogorov, became a named 2024 alternative to the standard neural-network architecture
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-16 · cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-bridge, kolmogorov, hilbert, neural-networks
• The KAN paper's own account: neural implementations of the Kolmogorov-Arnold theorem had been tried repeatedly before 2024 but stalled at a fixed shallow form, lacking modern techniques like backpropagation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-16 · kolmogorov, arnold, neural-networks, ai, backpropagation
• Liu et al. (2024) name and structurally base a new neural-network architecture, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, directly on the 1957 Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-16 · kolmogorov, arnold, neural-networks, ai, mathematics
• What genuinely connects the persistent-homology gradient-free bridge and the hub-selection-artifact-absence observation
  capture promoted 2026-09-12 · persistent-homology, topological-data-analysis, generalization, sampling-artifact, cross-domain-bridge
• Rieck et al.'s "Neural Persistence" (2019) computes zero-dimensional persistent homology over every layer's complete weighted graph, with no subsampling step of any kind
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · persistent-homology, topological-data-analysis, neural-networks, generalization, methodology
• The hub-selection sampling artifact has no foothold on the neural-network side of the persistent-homology bridge because NN-PH diagnostics read a complete recorded object, not a partial reconstruction of a hidden one
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · persistent-homology, topological-data-analysis, sampling-artifact, cliodynamics, neural-networks
• Do FICO's neural-network models actually score a majority of the world's card transactions — and what is the primary source for that figure?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, neural-networks, sec-filing
• What is the actual model architecture of HNC's Falcon Fraud Manager — is it specifically a supervised backpropagation feedforward network?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-02 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• FICO's FY2008 Form 10-K describes Falcon Fraud Manager's mechanism as neural network predictive models built on patented transaction-profiling technology
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, neural-networks, sec-filing
• HNC's founding 1992 Falcon patent names its network architecture as "feed forward"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• HNC's founding 1992 Falcon patent specifies backpropagation gradient descent as a supervised training method
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• HNC's founding Falcon patent describes a multilayer network, not a single-layer perceptron
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• Birdal et al.'s persistent-homology-dimension estimator subsamples training iterates uniformly at random, not by any structural covariate
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · persistent-homology, topological-data-analysis, sampling-artifact, generalization, neural-networks
• Gutiérrez-Fandiño et al.'s persistence-diagram-distance method subsamples nothing — it builds the simplicial complex from every neuron and connection
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · persistent-homology, topological-data-analysis, sampling-artifact, generalization, validation-set-free
• Neither founding neural-network persistent-homology generalization paper documents, tests, or rules out a hub-selection-style artifact — absent by design in both, not proven absent in general
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · persistent-homology, topological-data-analysis, sampling-artifact, generalization, methodology
• Do persistent-homology-based neural-network generalization diagnostics share the Byzantine trade-network study's hub-selection / sampling-artifact vulnerability?
  capture promoted 2026-07-21 · persistent-homology, topological-data-analysis, sampling-artifact, generalization, methodology
• Birdal, Lou, Guibas & Şimşekli (2021) bound neural-network generalization error by the persistent-homology dimension of the training trajectory
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · persistent-homology, topological-data-analysis, generalization, deep-learning, neural-networks
• In the 1990s–2000s neural networks were an out-of-favor 'backwater,' displaced by SVMs, until the mid-2000s 'deep learning' revival
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · deep-learning, neural-networks, ai-winter, svm, ai-history
• Trade press reported Nestor's Ni1000 chip was funded with $1.2M from DARPA and $400,000 from ONR — contradicted by Nestor's own SEC filings, which record $1,630,000 and $776,167 for two distinct contracts
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-12 · nestor, ni1000, darpa, onr, neural-networks
• What is the actual model architecture of HNC's Falcon Fraud Manager — is it specifically a supervised backpropagation feedforward network?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · hnc, falcon, fico, fraud-detection, neural-networks
• The late-1980s US 'Japan panic' is the real bridge between Exon-Florio and Nestor's neural chips — one anxiety, two branches, and a Fairchild-to-Intel genealogy that touches both
  capture promoted 2026-07-11 · cfius, exon-florio, ai-winter, neural-networks, darpa
• The other 1960s-80s connectionists didn't vanish -- they chased the funding or exited into industry
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, connectionism, ai-winter, sociology-of-science, funding
• Widrow's PhD student built the Intel 4004; the 4004's circuit designer later said silicon can never be conscious
  capture promoted Tier mixed, see per-claim tiers below 2026-07-09 · hop, oral-history, neural-networks, backpropagation-history, microprocessor
• Exact publication year and page range of the NETtalk paper (Sejnowski & Rosenberg)
  capture promoted Tier 1-2 (see per-claim notes; primary PDF text could not be directly rendered in this environment — see caveat) 2026-07-09 · nettalk, sejnowski, rosenberg, backpropagation, connectionism
• HNC Software's 1992 Falcon Fraud Manager became the seed of FICO's card-fraud scoring infrastructure
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · connectionism, ai-winter, hnc, fico, fraud-detection
• Nestor Inc. sold commercial neural-network pattern recognition through the AI winter yet had never turned a profit after 19 years
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · connectionism, ai-winter, nestor, neural-networks, commercialization
• Ted Hoff — Bernard Widrow's Stanford PhD student and co-inventor of the LMS/ADALINE — went on to architect the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · hoff, widrow, adaline, lms, intel-4004
• Do FICO's neural-network models actually score a majority of the world's card transactions — and what is the primary source for that figure?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · fico, hnc, fraud-detection, neural-networks, unverified-quant
• Does Perceptrons (1969) p. 232 contain the 'intuitive judgment … sterile' passage verbatim?
  capture promoted 2026-07-08 · Perceptrons, Minsky-Papert, history-of-AI, AI-winter, multilayer-perceptrons
• Werbos's "Optimization: A Foundation for Understanding Consciousness" (1997, not 1996) argues optimization is a useful tool for understanding mind — and is explicitly not his fullest statement on consciousness
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-08 · werbos, consciousness, mind, optimization, neural-networks
• What did Lillicrap et al. (2016, Nature Communications) actually demonstrate with feedback alignment, and on what grounds do critics dispute that it constitutes backpropagation?
  capture promoted 2026-07-06 · feedback-alignment, backpropagation, biological-plausibility, weight-transport-problem, timothy-lillicrap
• Capture: What does Werbos argue in his 1996 chapter "Optimization: A Foundation for Understanding Consciousness" and does it constitute his fullest primary statement on mind/consciousness?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-06 · werbos, consciousness, mind, optimization, neural-networks
• What is the vanishing gradient problem and which paper first characterized it rigorously?
  capture promoted 2026-07-01 · deep-learning, backpropagation, training-dynamics, neural-networks, history-of-ml
• What Hinton meant by calling backpropagation biologically implausible
  capture promoted 2026-06-30 · backpropagation, biological-plausibility, geoffrey-hinton, forward-forward, credit-assignment
• Credit Assignment Problem (Minsky 1961) and Backpropagation
  capture promoted 2026-06-30 · backpropagation, credit-assignment, minsky, rumelhart-hinton-williams, neural-networks
• Who first applied backpropagation to a practical recognition task, and when
  capture promoted 2026-06-30 · backpropagation, neural-networks, LeCun, deep-learning-history, handwritten-digit-recognition
• Why neural-network research stalled between the 1969 Perceptrons book and the mid-1980s revival
  capture promoted 2026-06-30 · neural-networks, ai-history, ai-winter, backpropagation, perceptrons