We present a novel, nonperturbative extension of Hopfield's Lyapunov function for symmetric neural networks to the generic nonsymmetric case. The resulting nonperturbative condition for asymptotic stability is not simple, but it can be shown to be nonempty by examining the perturbative limit.
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