Title

Equivalence between local exponential stability of the unique equilibrium point and global stability for Hopfield-type neural networks with two neurons

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2000

Abstract

In a recent paper, Fang and Kincaid proposed an open problem about the relationship between the local stability of the unique equilibrium point and the global stability for a Hopfield-type neural network with continuously differentiable and monotonically increasing activation functions. As a partial answer to the question, in the two-neuron case it is proved that for each given specific interconnection weight matrix, a Hopfield-type neural network has a unique equilibrium point which is also locally exponentially stable for any activation functions and for any other network parameters if and only if the network is globally asymptotically stable for any activation functions and for any other network parameters. If the derivatives of the activation functions of the network are bounded, then the network is globally exponentially stable for any activation functions and for any other network parameters.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

First Page

1194

Last Page

1196

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