Original Contribution: Hamiltonian dynamics of neural networks

  • Authors:
  • Ulrich Ramacher

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

The activation and weight dynamics of Artificial Neural Networks are derived from a partial differential equation (PDE) that may incorporate weights either as parameters or variables. It is shown that a single first-order Hamilton-Jacobi ''parametrical'' PDE suffices to derive the various neurodynamical paradigms used today. In the case that weights are taken as variables, a new type of neurodynamics is discovered: A Hamilton function is derived so that the weights obey a second-order ordinary differential equation (ODE). As this ODE models the forces, experienced by the weights in the presence of some generalized error potential, it is called a learning law. Results obtained for the association of time-varying patterns, using parametrical as well as dynamical weights, show that learning rules can be replaced by learning laws at equal performance.