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The Storage of Stable Patterns
- The Hopfield network employs Hebbian learning.
wij = ai aj
- If we instantiate a pattern on the array of units and apply the above rule that pattern becomes an attractor of the network.
- If the pattern of activation of the network is close to a stored pattern it will tend to migrate to that pattern.
- Once it arrives at the attractor it will remain there indefinitely - the attractors are stable.