Random neural networks with negative and positive signals and product form solution

  • Authors:
  • Erol Gelenbe

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Informatique (EHEI), Universit Paris V, 45 rue des Saints-Pres, 75006 Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Neural Computation
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

We introduce a new class of random neural networks in which signals are either negative or positive. A positive signal arriving at a neuron increases its total signal count or potential by one; a negative signal reduces it by one if the potential is positive, and has no effect if it is zero. When its potential is positive, a neuron fires, sending positive or negative signals at random intervals to neurons or to the outside. Positive signals represent excitatory signals and negative signals represent inhibition. We show that this model, with exponential signal emission intervals, Poisson external signal arrivals, and Markovian signal movements between neurons, has a product form leading to simple analytical expressions for the system state.