title: Higher-order neural networks, Polyà polynomials, and Fermi cluster diagrams.
abstract: The problem of controlling higher-order interactions in neural networks is addressed with techniques commonly applied in the cluster analysis of quantum many-particle systems. For multineuron synaptic weights chosen according to a straightforward extension of the standard Hebbian learning rule, we show that higher-order contributions to the stimulus felt by a given neuron can be readily evaluated via Polyà's combinatoric group-theoretical approach or equivalently by exploiting a precise formal analogy with fermion diagrammatics.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Wien, Austria.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Kürten
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Clark