An integer recurrent artificial neural network for classifying feature vectors

The main contribution of this paper is the development of an Integer Recurrent Artificial Neural Network (IRANN) for classification of feature vectors. The network consists both of threshold units or perceptrons and of counters, which are non-threshold units with binary input and integer output. Input and output of the network consists of vectors of natural numbers that may be used to represent feature vectors. For classification purposes, representatives of sets are stored by calculating a connection matrix such that all the elements in a training set are attracted to members of the same training set. The class of its attractor then classifies an arbitrary element if the attractor is a member of one of the original training sets. The network is successfully applied to the classification of sugar diabetes data, credit application data, and the iris data set.