Construction of a distributed associative memory on the basis of bayes discriminant rule.

The purpose of this correspondence is to propose a new construction method of distributed associative memory which operates with discrete-valued signals. In this method, memorized pairs of vectors (cue vectors and data vectors) are recorded in the form of a matrix W and a vector T. From an input vector X, the data vector is recalled by an operation u(XW + T) where X is a cue vector or a noisy cue vector. and u is a quantizing function. The methods of memorization and recall are similar to the Associatron; however, the proposed model can recall the data vectors optimally in Bayesian sense even when noisy cue vectors are given as the input vectors.