Analysis and design of a k-winners-take-all model with a single state variable and the heaviside step activation function

  • Authors:
  • Jun Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ...

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a k-winners-take-all (kWTA) neural network with a single state variable and a hard-limiting activation function. First, following several kWTA problem formulations, related existing kWTA networks are reviewed. Then, the kWTA model with a single state variable and a Heaviside step activation function is described and its global stability and finite-time convergence are proven with derived upper and lower bounds. In addition, the initial state estimation and a discrete-time version of the kWTA model are discussed. Furthermore, two selected applications to parallel sorting and rank-order filtering based on the kWTA model are discussed. Finally, simulation results show the effectiveness and performance of the kWTA model.