Beyond Associative Memories: Logics and Variables in Connectionist Models (1992)
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@ARTICLE{Sun92beyondassociative,
author = {Ron Sun},
title = {Beyond Associative Memories: Logics and Variables in Connectionist Models},
journal = {Information Sciences},
year = {1992},
volume = {70},
pages = {49--74}
}
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Abstract
This paper demonstrates the role of connectionist (neural network) models in reasoning beyond that of an associative memory. First we show that there is a connection between propositional logics and the weighted-sum computation customarily used in connectionist models. Specifically, the weighted-sum computation can handle Horn clause logic and Shoham's logic as special cases. Secondly, we show how variables can be incorporated into connectionist models to enhance their representational power. We devise solutions to the connectionist variable binding problem to enable connectioninst networks to handle variables and dynamic bindings in reasoning. A new model, the Discrete Neuron formalism, is employed for dealing with the variable binding problem, which is an extension of the weighted-sum models. Formal definitions are presented, and examples are analyzed in details. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank Dave Waltz, James Pustejovsky, and Tim Hickey (all of Brandeis University) for many discu...
