Learning As Self-organization

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Democratic Reinforcement: Learning via Self-Organization

Dimitris Stassinopoulos and Per Bak

Democratic Reinforcement: Learning via Self-Organization

Dimitris Stassinopoulos* and Per Bak†

* Center for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA

† Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, New York 11973, USA

ABSTRACT

The problem of learning in the absence of external intelligence is discussed in the context of a simple model. The model consists of a set of randomly connected, or layered integrate-and fire neurons. Inputs to and outputs from the environment are connected randomly to subsets of neurons. The connections between firing neurons are strengthened or weakened according to whether ...