shawnd@coho.ee.ubc.ca (Shawn Day) (07/13/90)
I have recently been reading about Kosko's Bidirectional Associative Memories (BAM's) [1]. The author claims that the Hopfield network is a special case of the BAM with the two sets of representational units compressed into one. It seems to me, however that the Hopfield network is the most general case, allowing complete interconnectivity between units. The BAM appears to be a special case of the Hopfield network with restricted connectivity. If this is indeed the case, then I fail to see the distinction between the two network architectures, and the BAM presents nothing new. Has this topic been previously discussed, or does anyone have an opinion on the subject? Or am I missing something obvious? Thanks in advance for any feedback. [1] Kosko, Bart. "Bidirectional Associative Memories", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1988. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Shawn Day UBC VLSI Salmon Net (604) 264-0024 | | 6609 Lime Street shawnd@ee.ubc.ca | | Vancouver, British Columbia ...!ubc-vision!ee.ubc.ca!shawnd | | Canada V6P 5V7 shawnd@ee.ubc.cdn%ean.ubc.ca@RELAY.CSNET | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+