CHAOS, BIFURCATION AND ROBUSTNESS OF A CLASS OF HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORKS.

Chaos, bifurcation and robustness of a new class of Hopfield neural networks are investigated. Numerical simulations show that the simple Hopfield neural networks can display chaotic attractors and limit cycles for different parameters. The Lyapunov exponents are calculated, the bifurcation plot and several important phase portraits are presented as well. By virtue of horseshoes theory in dynamical systems, rigorous computer-assisted verifications for chaotic behavior of the system with certain parameters are given, and here also presents a discussion on the robustness of the original system. Besides this, quantitative descriptions of the complexity of these systems are also given, and a robustness analysis of the system is presented too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]