Coexistence and local stability of multiple equilibria in neural networks with piecewise linear nondecreasing activation functions

Neural Networks

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-200

  Wang, Lili ^a,b   Lu, Wenlian ^a,b   Chen, Tianping ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Attraction basin; Coexistence; Multiple equilibria; Multistability; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS; ATTRACTION BASIN; CORNER POINT; EXPONENTIALLY STABLE; LOCAL STABILITY; MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIA; MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIUM; MULTISTABILITY; PIECEWISE LINEAR; PIECEWISE LINEAR ACTIVATIONS; STABLE EQUILIBRIUM POINTS; STABLE MANIFOLD; UNSTABLE EQUILIBRIUM POINTS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS;

EID: 73949135312     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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