A nonbinary neural network design

In earlier studies a distributed neural network, referred to as a neuromic array, was introduced. The earlier designs were restricted to binary alphabets. The present study loosens this restriction by demonstrating the design extension to the quartic case. A natural morphism between the quartic valued and binary valued vector spaces is used to establish a design equivalence between the two settings. This correspondence compares the robustness and performance of equivalent binary and quartic designs