A short page of news items, including the Netlab release history,
information about the book, and future plans.
Release History
- Release 0.1: 4/12/97. First external beta release.
- Release 2.1: 26/5/00. Second beta for selected externals.
- Release 3.2: 30/10/01. First formal external release;
corresponds to software described in book.
Book
The accompanying text book was published by Springer in November
2001. The book
web page contains more
information and also software for the worked examples in the book.
There are plans to reprint the book (with a few minor corrections,
see the
errata list) that will coincide
with Release 3.3 of the software.
Future Plans
I am always happy to consider suggestions for changes and enhancements
to Netlab. My current plans include the following:
- Automating model complexity selection (e.g. number of components
in PCA, mixture models).
- Enhancing Gaussian Process software to cope with classification
problems, using Csato and Opper's approach.
- Extending Netlab to include time series models, such as hidden
Markov models, AR modelling etc.
- Adding more pre-processing tools to Netlab and providing more of
an application development framework (possibly with a GUI).
- Converting all or part of Netlab to Java, thus making it
available to users without Matlab.
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