1.3.3 Structure of the Thesis
In chapter 2, we formalise the challenge of building learning systems as the Supervised
Learning Problem, and introduce one class of learning system, neural networks. In sec-tion 2.2 we review current techniques for combining the outputs of a set of predictors. In
section 2.3 we review the most commonly used architectures for learning the predictors that
are to be combined. This chapter identifies the wider body of literature to which this thesis
contributes.