hopfield network

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hopfield network - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Hopfield network
  Hopfield model
  
     <artificial intelligence> (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of
     neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early
     1980s.  The Hopfield network has no special input or output
     neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and
     output, and all are connected to all others in both directions
     (with equal weights in the two directions).  Input is applied
     simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other
     and the process continues until a stable state is reached,
     which represents the network output.
  
     (1997-10-11)