2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/113529This paper introduces an objective function that seeks to minimise the average total number of bits required to encode the joint state of all of the layers of a Markov source. This type of encoder may be applied to the problem of optimising the bottom-up (recognition model) and top-down (generative model) connections in a multilayer neural network, and it unifies several previous results on the optimisation of multilayer neural networks.26 pagesNeural and Evolutionary ComputingI.2.6; I.5.1text