Robustness Analysis on Dual Neural Network-based $k$ WTA With Input Noise

作者：Ruibin Feng, Chi-Sing Leung, John Sum · 发表于：IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 年份：2017 · DOI：10.1109/tnnls.2016.2645602 · 被引用次数：43 · 研究领域：Neural Networks and Applications、Control Systems and Identification、Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms

This paper studies the effects of uniform input noise and Gaussian input noise on the dual neural network-based WTA (DNN- WTA) model. We show that the state of the network (under either uniform input noise or Gaussian input noise) converges to one of the equilibrium points. We then derive a formula to check if the network produce correct outputs or not. Furthermore, for the uniformly distributed inputs, two lower bounds (one for each type of input noise) on the probability that the network produces the correct outputs are presented. Besides, when the minimum separation amongst inputs is given, we derive the condition for the network producing the correct outputs. Finally, experimental results are presented to verify our theoretical results. Since random drift in the comparators can be considered as input noise, our results can be applied to the random drift situation.