title: Clique-Based Neural Associative Memories with Local Coding and Precoding.
abstract: Techniques from coding theory are able to improve the efficiency of neuroinspired and neural associative memories by forcing some construction and constraints on the network. In this letter, the approach is to embed coding techniques into neural associative memory in order to increase their performance in the presence of partial erasures. The motivation comes from recent work by Gripon, Berrou, and coauthors, which revisited Willshaw networks and presented a neural network with interacting neurons that partitioned into clusters. The model introduced stores patterns as small-size cliques that can be retrieved in spite of partial error. We focus on improving the success of retrieval by applying two techniques: doing a local coding in each cluster and then applying a precoding step. We use a slightly different decoding scheme, which is appropriate for partial erasures and converges faster. Although the ideas of local coding and precoding are not new, the way we apply them is different. Simulations show an increase in the pattern retrieval capacity for both techniques. Moreover, we use self-dual additive codes over field [Formula: see text], which have very interesting properties and a simple-graph representation.
authors.affiliation: Selmer Center, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen 5020, Norway Asieh.Mofrad@uib.no.
authors.forename: Asieh Abolpour
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Mofrad
authors.affiliation: Selmer Center, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen 5020, Norway Matthew.Parker@ii.uib.no.
authors.forename: Matthew G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Ferdosi@aut.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ferdosi
authors.affiliation: Iran Telecommunication Research Center, Tehran 1439955471, Iran Tadayon@itrc.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mohammad H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Tadayon
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D009415:Nerve Net; D009474:Neurons