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Using Attenuation Coefficient Generating Function in Parallel Execution of Neural Networks for Solving SAT
Kairong Zhang, and Masahiro Nagamatu
Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu 808-0196, Japan
Received:October 31, 2004Accepted:December 25, 2004Published:March 20, 2005
Keywords:satisfiability problem, parallel execution, neural network, Lagrangian method
Abstract
The satisfiability problem (SAT) is one of the most basic and important problems in computer science. We have proposed a recurrent analog neural network called Lagrange Programming neural network with Polarized High-order connections (LPPH) for the SAT, together with a method of parallel execution of LPPH. Experimental results demonstrate a high speedup ratio. Furthermore this method is very easy to realize by hardware. LPPH dynamics has an important parameter, the attenuation coefficient, known to strongly affect LPPH execution speed, but determining a good value of attenuation coefficient is difficult. Experimental results show that the parallel execution reduces this difficulty. In this paper we propose a method to assign different values of attenuation coefficients to LPPHs used in the parallel execution. The values are generated uniformly randomly or randomly using a probability density function.
Cite this article as:K. Zhang and M. Nagamatu, “Using Attenuation Coefficient Generating Function in Parallel Execution of Neural Networks for Solving SAT,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.9 No.2, pp. 121-126, 2005.Data files: