Hopfield network


Hopfield network

(artificial intelligence)(Or "Hopfield model") A kind ofneural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or outputneurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input andoutput, and all are connected to all others in both directions(with equal weights in the two directions). Input is appliedsimultaneously to all neurons which then output to each otherand the process continues until a stable state is reached,which represents the network output.