Can a Niching Method Locate Multiple Attractors Embedded in the Hopfield Network?

  • Authors:
  • Akira Imada;Keijiro Araki

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SEAL'98 Selected papers from the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning on Simulated Evolution and Learning
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We apply evolutionary computations to the Hopfield's neural network model of associative memory. In the model, a number of patterns can be stored in the network as attractors if synaptic weights are determined appropriately. So far, we have explored weight space to search for the optimal weight configuration that creates attractors at the location of patterns to be stored. In this paper, on the other hand, we explore pattern space to search for attractors that are created by a fixed weight configuration. All the solutions in this case are a priori known. The purpose of this paper is to study the ability of a niching genetic algorithm to locate these multiple solutions using the Hopfield model as a test function.