Interactive Activation and Competition

Interactive Activation and Competition
www.cse.unsw.edu.au/.../ml/pdp/iac-2005.html

Aim:
Interactive activation and competition nets are a class of neural network different from backpropagation networks. They tend to model choice and clustering phenomena in biological neural networks
Reference: Chapter 2 of McClelland, JL and Rumelhart, DE, Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing, MIT Press, 1989.
Plan:
network architecture
update rule
network dynamics
how competition works
Jets and Sharks dataset
retrieval from partial descriptions
graceful degradation
generalization