A pattern recognition program that generates, evaluates, and adjusts its own operators

This paper describes an attempt to make use of machine learning or self-organizing processes in the design of a pattern-recognition program. The program starts not only without any knowledge of specific patterns to be input, but also without any operators for processing inputs. Operators are generated and refined by the program itself as a function of the problem space and of its own successes and failures in dealing with the problem space. Not only does the program learn information about different patterns, it also learns or constructs, in part at least, a secondary code appropriate for the analysis of the particular set of patterns input to it.

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