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David H. Ackley, Geoffrey Hinton and Terrence J. Sejnowski tested their 1985 algorithm on a simulated 4–2–4 encoder. Two four-unit visible groups communicated through two hidden units, with no direct connections between the groups. Preparation set weights to zero and supplied corresponding one-active-unit patterns. Noisy clamping and annealed settling generated pair-coactivation readouts, compared with freely running readouts to choose weight changes. Learned hidden codes were the outcome. Equal sampling effort in clamped and free conditions supplied the comparison; noise limited weight growth. Finite settling was assumed to reach equilibrium, limiting the evidence for exact likelihood learning.^[ref]

A computer scientist researching machine learning and artificial neural networks.^[ref]

Jimmy Lei Ba, also known as Jimmy Ba, is a computer scientist whose published work includes Adam and layer normalization. His personal research biography identifies Geoffrey Hinton as his doctoral supervisor and describes a focus on efficient algorithms for deep learning.^[ref] The 2016 layer-normalization manuscript prints his University of Toronto affiliation and the name Jimmy Lei Ba.^[ref]

Ba coauthored Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization by Diederik P. Kingma and Jimmy Lei Ba with Diederik P. Kingma. The algorithm maintains optimizer state based on gradients, so its update depends on the history of the optimization. Adam bias correction accounts for the early effect of initializing its exponential accumulators at zero.^[ref]

The layer normalization paper, coauthored with Jamie Ryan Kiros and Geoffrey E. Hinton, addresses a different part of a neural network: it computes a mean and variance across feature coordinates of an individual example, then applies learned gain and bias. It avoids making those statistics depend on the other examples in the mini-batch.^[ref]

An original numerical example illustrates one precise symmetry. In the stabilized formula of layer normalization, set all gains to 1, all biases to 0, and layer-normalization epsilon to $\epsilon =1/3$. For $z=(1,2,3)$, the coordinate arithmetic mean is 2 and the coordinate variance is $2/3$, so the normalized output is $(-1,0,1)$. Adding 10 to every coordinate gives $(11,12,13)$, whose output is again $(-1,0,1)$: layer normalization is invariant under a common input shift because the coordinate mean shifts by the same amount and the deviations remain unchanged.

The fixed layer-normalization epsilon affects scaling differently. With $2z=(2,4,6)$, the coordinate variance is $8/3$ and the output is $(-2/\sqrt{3},0,2/\sqrt{3})$, which differs from the original output. This calculation distinguishes the exact common-shift symmetry from idealized scale invariance when the stabilizer is omitted. It does not assign either numerical example to the paper's experiments.

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton shared the award equally for foundational discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.^[ref]