| | Continuous Learning in Sparsely Connected Hopfield Nets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | Experiments are reported in which sparsely connected Hopfield nets with capped weights perform continuous learning: they are fed an ongoing stream of training patterns, and "remember" the most recent few as attractors. |
 | | The main limitation of Hopfield nets as associative memories is that, even in the fully connected case, the number of training patterns can be at most about 14% the number of nodes in the network. |
 | | That is, we generate Hopfield nets containing only certain connections, and then, in the learning process, update the weights of the connections that are there -- these being the only relationships knowable by this particular net. |
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