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- Subject: Re: Biologically Plausible Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 07:41:37 GMT
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- From: paulf@manor.demon.co.uk (Paul Fawcett)
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- A *Dynamic Artificial Neural Network* (DANN) [1]
- possesses processing elements that are created and/or
- annihilated, either in real time or as some part of a
- development phase [2].
-
- Of particular interest is the possibility of
- constructing *biologically plausible* DANN's that
- models developmental neurobiological strategies for
- establishing and modifying processing elements and their
- connections...
-
- << Though you cross-posted this query to a very large number of newsgroups,
- I am confining my reply to those groups that I read. Blind cross-posting
- wastes a lot of net bandwidth and a lot of people's time. >>
-
- I would just point out that adding or subtracting neurons from the
- functional net does not necessarily correspond to adding, destroying, or
- moving any physical neurons. If a physical neuron (or functional group of
- neurons) has a lot of excess connections, invisible changes in the synapses
- can effectively wire it into the net in a large number of different ways,
- or effectively remove it.
-
- Something like my dynamic (additive) Cascade-Correlation model can be
- implemented by a sort of phase change, rather than a re-wiring of the net:
- A candidate unit has a lot of trainable inputs, but it produces no output
- (or all the potential recipients ignore its output). After a unit is
- tenured, a specific pattern of input weights is frozen in, but now the
- neuron does produce effective outputs. I don't know if such a phase
- transition has been observed in biological neurons -- it would be
- interesting to find out. Note that what I'm calling a "unit" might
- correspond to a group of biological neurons rather than a single one.
-
- -- Scott
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