An information-based neural approach to generic constraint satisfaction
Författare
Summary, in English
A novel artificial neural network heuristic (INN) for general constraint satisfaction problems is presented. extending a recently suggested method restricted to boolean variables. In contrast to conventional ANN methods, it employs a particular type of non-polynomial cost function, based on the information balance between variables and constraints in a mean-field setting. Implemented as an annealing algorithm, the method is numerically explored on a testbed of Graph Coloring problems. The performance is comparable to that of dedicated heuristics, and clearly superior to that of conventional mean-field annealing.
Publiceringsår
2002
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1-17
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Artificial Intelligence
Volym
142
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Biophysics
Nyckelord
- constraint satisfaction
- connectionist
- artificial
- neural network
- heuristic information
- mean-field annealing
- graph coloring
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1872-7921