This directory contains documents and programs by Radford M. Neal.  
My e-mail address is radford@cs.utoronto.ca.  You can also get to 
this information via the World Wide Web, starting the URL

     http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~radford 

In fact, that's the preferred way, since I may not keep this README
file up-to-date.  AND IN FACT, I HAVEN'T KEPT IT UP-TO-DATE!

Files ending in .ps.Z are compressed PostScript - THESE MUST BE
TRANSFERRED IN BINARY FTP MODE.  These files can be uncompressed 
on Unix machines using the 'uncompress' command, then viewed with
'ghostview' or printed with 'lpr', or whatever.  For the larger
documents, you may find that the -s option of lpr is needed.

Short files containing the abstract and the table of contents for
papers may also be available.  Some documents have a ".ref" file that
gives a reference to published papers based on the document.

NOTE:  The text of my thesis is no longer available on-line (you can
still get the abstract).  A revised version of the thesis with some
new material has now been published by Springer-Verlag.  You should
be able to order it at 1-800-Springer or orders@springer-ny.com.  The
ISBN is 0-387-94724-8.  The price is $32.95 (US).

The documents in this directory are as follows:

    slice    Technical Report No. 9722 on "Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
             based on `slicing' the density function", 27 pages.

    mc-gp    Technical Report No. 9702 on "Monte Carlo implementation
             of Gaussian process models for Bayesian regression and 
             classification", 24 pages.

    ws-fa    Technical Report No. 9607 on "Factor Analysis Using 
             Delta-Rule Wake-Sleep Learning", 23 pages.

    over     Technical Report No. 9508 on "Suppressing Random Walks in 
             Markov Chain Monte Carlo Using Ordered Overrelaxation", 22 pages.

    ttrans   Technical Report No. 9421 on "Sampling from multimodal 
             distributions using tempered transitions", 22 pages.

    pin      Technical report CRG-TR-94-1 on "Priors for infinite 
             networks", 22 pages.

    review   Technical report CRG-TR-93-1 on "Probabilistic inference
             using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods", 144 pages.

    emk      Paper with Geoffrey Hinton on "A view of the EM algorithm that
             justifies incremental, sparse, and other variants", 14 pages.

    bbp      Technical report CRG-TR-92-1 on "Bayesian training of
             backpropagation networks by the hybrid Monte Carlo method",
             21 pages.

    bmm      Technical report CRG-TR-91-2 on "Bayesian mixture modeling
             by Monte Carlo simulation", 23 pages.

    sff      Technical report CRG-TR-90-7 on "Learning stochastic 
             feedforward networks", 34 pages.

    taxc     Unpublished manuscript on "The computational complexity of
             taxonomic inference", December 1989, 18 pages.

The programs in this directory are as follows:

    fbm.*         These files contain versions of my software for 
                  flexible Bayesian modeling, including neural network 
                  and Gaussian process models.  You're better off getting 
                  them via my Web page.

    bnn.*         These files contain some old version of Bayesian neural
                  network software. 

    ws-fa.tar     Programs implementing wake-sleep learning of factor
                  analysis models.

    lowp_ac.shar  Shell archive of software for fast arithmetic coding 
                  using low-precision arithmetic, which can be done quickly 
                  without multiplies and divides. 

    lowp_ac.doc   Just the documenation for the above software (which is
                  included in lowp_ac.shar).

    cacm_ac.shar  Shell archive of adaptive arithmetic coding software
                  from Witten, Neal & Cleary, Communications of the ACM, 
                  vol. 30, no. 6 (June 1987).