Figure 6.1: An example shared weights network
Recipes are ASCII files describing how shared weights networks should be constructed. Since the construction of this type of network has a large number of parameters, a simple parameter passing scheme such as used in the create_ff_net function is not sufficient. Therefore, an ASCI file format was created: the recipe-file.
Such a recipe can be read from file using the function read_sharednet_recipe. It can then be used to construct a shared weights network using the create_sharednet function. The result is a network of type SHAREDNET.
Of course, a recipe does not have to be read from file; it can also be constructed by the calling program itself. This is, however, not advisable, since these structures can quickly become very complex.