Biomedical subjects

W K Theumann

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PubMed2001

Retrieval behavior and thermodynamic properties of symmetrically diluted Q-Ising neural networks.

The retrieval behavior and thermodynamic properties of symmetrically diluted Q-Ising neural networks are derived and studied in replica-symmetric mean-field theory generalizing earlier works on either the fully connected or the symmetrical extremely diluted network. Capacity-gain parameter phase diagrams are obtained for the Q=3, Q=4, and Q=infinity state networks with uniformly distributed patterns of low activity in order to search for the effects of a gradual dilution of the synapses. It is shown that enlarged regions of continuous changeover into a region of optimal performance are obtained for finite stochastic noise and small but finite connectivity. The de Almeida-Thouless lines of stability are obtained for arbitrary connectivity, and the resulting phase diagrams are used to draw conclusions on the behavior of symmetrically diluted networks with other pattern distributions of either high or low activity.

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PubMed1999

Categorization in the symmetrically dilute Hopfield network.

A symmetrically dilute Hopfield model with a Hebbian learning rule is used to study the effects of gradual dilution and of synaptic noise on the categorization ability of an attractor neural network with hierarchically correlated patterns in a two-level structure of ancestors and descendants. Categorization consists in recognizing the ancestors when the network has been trained exclusively with the descendants. We consider a macroscopic number of ancestors, each with a finite number of descendants, and take into account the stochastic noise produced by the former in an equilibrium study of the network, by means of replica-symmetric mean-field theory. Phase diagrams are obtained that exhibit a categorization, a spin-glass, and a paramagnetic phase, as well as the dependence of the order parameters on the relevant quantities. The de Almeida-Thouless lines that limit the validity of the replica-symmetric results are also obtained. It is shown that gradual dilution increases considerably the region where a stable categorization phase may be found.

Biophysical Phenomena↗

PubMed1999

Categorization in fully connected multistate neural network models.

The categorization ability of fully connected neural network models, with either discrete or continuous Q-state units, is studied in this work in replica symmetric mean-field theory. Hierarchically correlated multistate patterns in a two level structure of ancestors and descendents (examples) are embedded in the network and the categorization task consists in recognizing the ancestors when the network is trained exclusively with their descendents. Explicit results for the dependence of the equilibrium properties of a Q=3-state model and a Q=infinity-state model are obtained in the form of phase diagrams and categorization curves. A strong improvement of the categorization ability is found when the network is trained with examples of low activity. The categorization ability is found to be robust to finite threshold and synaptic noise. The Almeida-Thouless lines that limit the validity of the replica-symmetric results, are also obtained.

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