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D Bollé1, D R Dominguez, S Amari
1Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. desire.bolle@fys.kuleuven.ac.be
Abstract:
The influence of a macroscopic time-dependent threshold on the retrieval dynamics of attractor associative memory models with ternary neurons ¿-1, 0, +1¿ is examined. If the threshold is chosen appropriately as a function of the cross-talk noise and of the activity of the memorized patterns in the model, adapting itself in the course of the time evolution, it guarantees an autonomous functioning of the model. Especially in the limit of sparse coding, it is found that this self-control mechanism considerably improves the quality of the fixed-point retrieval dynamics, in particular the storage capacity, the basins of attraction and the information content. The mutual information is shown to be the relevant parameter to study the retrieval quality of such sparsely coded models. Numerical results confirm these observations.
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