Adding Lateral Inhibition to a Simple Feedforward Network Enables It to Perform Exclusive-Or

Citation

Smith L (1998) Adding Lateral Inhibition to a Simple Feedforward Network Enables It to Perform Exclusive-Or. Neural Computation, 10 (2), pp. 277-280. https://doi.org/10.1162/089976698300017755

Abstract
A simple laterally inhibited recurrent network that implementse xclusive-or is demonstrated. The network consists of two mutually inhibitory units with logistic output function, each receiving one external input and each connected to a simple threshold output unit. The mutually inhibitory units settle into a point attractor. We investigate the range of steepness of the logistic and the range of inhibitory weights for which the network can perform exclusive-or.

Journal
Neural Computation: Volume 10, Issue 2

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Professor Leslie Smith

Emeritus Professor, Computing Science