| For Neural Networks, Function Determines Form (1992) | |||||||||||||||
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| This paper shows that the weights of continuous-time feedback neural networks are uniquely identifiable from input/output measurements. Under very weak genericity assumptions, the following is true: Assume given two nets, whose neurons all have the same nonlinear activation function oe; if the two nets have equal behaviors as "black boxes" then necessarily they must have the same number of neurons and ---except at most for sign reversals at each node--- the same weights. Moreover, even if the activations are not a priori known to coincide, they are shown to be also essentially determined from the external measurements. Key words: Neural networks, identification from input/output data, control systems 1 Introduction Many recent papers have explored the computational and dynamical properties of systems of interconnected "neurons." For instance, Hopfield ([7]), Cowan ([4]), and Grossberg and his school (see e.g. [3]), have all studied devices that can be modelled by sets of nonlinear dif... | |||||||||||||||
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