State-dependent weights for neural associative memories
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C. elegans Positive Butanone Learning, Short-term, and Long-term Associative Memory Assays
Published on: March 11, 2011
R Kothari1, R Lotlikar, M Cahay
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030, USA.
Abstract:
In this article we study the effect of dynamically modifying the weight matrix on the performance of a neural associative memory. The dynamic modification is implemented by adding, at each step, the outer product of the current state, scaled by a suitable constant eta, to the correlation weight matrix. For single-shot synchronous dynamics, we analytically obtain the optimal value of eta. Although knowledge of the noise percentage is required for calculating the optimal value of eta, a fairly good choice of eta can be made even when the amount of noise is not known. Experimental results are provided in support of the analysis. The efficacy of the proposed modification is also experimentally verified for the case of asynchronous updating with transient length > 1.
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