TY - JOUR N2 - The technique known as ?weight decay? in the literature about learning from data is investigated using tools from regularization theory. Weight-decay regularization is compared with Tikhonov?s regularization of the learning problem and with a mixed regularized learning technique. The accuracies of suboptimal solutions to weight-decay learning are estimated for connectionistic models with a-priori fixed numbers of computational units. EP - 79 ID - eprints1708 SN - 1619-697X IS - 1 PB - Springer JF - Computational Management Science SP - 53 TI - The weight-decay technique in learning from data: an optimization point of view AV - none KW - Learning from data; Regularization; Weight decay; Suboptimal solutions; Rates of convergence VL - 6 Y1 - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10287-008-0072-5 A1 - Gnecco, Giorgio A1 - Sanguineti, Marcello ER -