Kanada, Y., not yet published, 1996.
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Abstract: A method for solving large-scale constraint satisfaction problems using an annealed symmetrically-connected neural network, which is called DSN-FAM, is proposed in the present paper. Some conventional methods, such as Hopfield networks, often fail to find a solution. Some others, such as Boltzmann Machines, take too much time. These difficulties are solved by a type of annealing technique, which we call the frustration accumulation method (FAM). DSN-FAM works only with local information, and no global functions or global parameters such as a temperature are used. DSN-FAM thus works autonomously. That is, no external control is necessary while operating. Experiments show that this method does not fail to find a solution and the execution time is less than one tenth of Boltzmann Machines. The performance can be easily and almost linearly improved by parallel processing using tens of processors.
Introduction to this research theme: CCM: Chemical-Computation Model