From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/2731 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "M. Healy" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: preprint: Neural Networks, Knowledge and Cognition... Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:15:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241018858 5514 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:27:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:27:38 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Tue Jun 29 13:31:12 2004 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:31:12 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.10) id 1BfLVk-0003vx-00 for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:31:08 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 16 Original-Lines: 34 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:2731 Archived-At: A technical report on a categorical model of the semantics of neural networks is now available on the Dspace archive in the collection 2004. To access it, go to the University of New Mexico site at https://repository.ece.unm.edu/dspace/ and search on http://hdl.handle.net/1928/33 . Here's an abstract: Neural Networks, Knowledge, and Cognition: A Mathematical Semantic Model Based upon Category Theory, by M. J. Healy and T. P. Caudell Category theory can be applied to mathematically model the semantics of cognitive neural systems. We discuss semantics as a hierarchy of concepts, or symbolic descriptions of items sensed and represented in the connection weights distributed throughout a neural network. The hierarchy expresses subconcept relationships, and in a neural network it becomes represented incrementally through a Hebbian-like learning process. The categorical semantic model described here explains the learning process as the derivation of colimits and limits in a concept category. It explains the representation of the concept hierarchy in a neural network at each stage of learning as a system of functors and natural transformations, expressing knowledge coherence across the regions of a multi-regional network equipped with multiple sensors. The model yields design principles that constrain neural network designs capable of the most important aspects of cognitive behavior. Please let me know right away if there are any problems. I'll warmly receive any questions or comments. - Mike