A Multi-Winner Associative Memory

摘要

We propose a new associative memory named Multi-Winner Associative Memory (MWAM) and study its bidi- rectional association properties in this paper. The proposed MWAM has two processes for pattern pairs storage: storage pro- cess and recall process. For the storage process, the proposed MWAM can represent a half of pattern pair in the distributed representation layer and can store the correspondence of pattern and its representation using the upward weights. In addition, the MWAM can store the correspondence of the distributed represen- tation and the other half of pattern pair in the downward weights. For the recall process, the MWAM can recall information bidi- rectionally: a half of the stored pattern pair can be recalled by receiving the other half in the input-output layer for any stored pattern pairs.