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Storing memory for molecular recognition is an efficient strategy for responding to external stimuli. Biological processes use different strategies to store memory. In the olfactory cortex, synaptic connections form when stimulated by an…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Oskar H Schnaack , Luca Peliti , Armita Nourmohammad

Associative memory, a form of content-addressable memory, facilitates information storage and retrieval in many biological and physical systems. In statistical mechanics models, associative memory at equilibrium is represented through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-08 Agnish Kumar Behera , Madan Rao , Srikanth Sastry , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

We investigate the retrieval phase diagrams of an asynchronous fully-connected attractor network with non-monotonic transfer function by means of a mean-field approximation. We find for the noiseless zero-temperature case that this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-28 Jun-ichi Inoue

Following the general theoretical framework of VSA (Vector Symbolic Architecture), a cognitive model with the use of sparse binary hypervectors is proposed. In addition, learning algorithms are introduced to bootstrap the model from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhonghao Yang

This paper discusses predictive inference and feature selection for generalized linear models with scarce but high-dimensional data. We argue that in many cases one can benefit from a decision theoretically justified two-stage approach:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Juho Piironen , Markus Paasiniemi , Aki Vehtari

This paper proposes a sparse regression strategy for discovery of ordinary differential equations from incomplete and noisy data. Inference is performed over both equation parameters and state variables using a statistically motivated…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Teddy Meissner , Karl Glasner

Several recent experiments in biology study systems composed of several interacting elements, for example neuron networks. Normally, measurements describe only the collective behavior of the system, even if in most cases we would like to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-10-12 Vitor Sessak

We propose a framework for the joint inference of network topology, multi-type interaction kernels, and latent type assignments in heterogeneous interacting particle systems from multi-trajectory data. This learning task is a challenging…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Quanjun Lang , Xiong Wang , Fei Lu , Mauro Maggioni

We study inference and reconstruction of couplings in a partially observed kinetic Ising model. With hidden spins, calculating the likelihood of a sequence of observed spin configurations requires performing a trace over the configurations…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-13 Benjamin Dunn , Yasser Roudi

While Hopfield networks are known as paradigmatic models for memory storage and retrieval, modern artificial intelligence systems mainly stand on the machine learning paradigm. We show that it is possible to formulate a teacher-student…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-02 Francesco Alemanno , Luca Camanzi , Gianluca Manzan , Daniele Tantari

Modern Hopfield networks have enjoyed recent interest due to their connection to attention in transformers. Our paper provides a unified framework for sparse Hopfield networks by establishing a link with Fenchel-Young losses. The result is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Saul Santos , Vlad Niculae , Daniel McNamee , Andre F. T. Martins

The spherical version of the Hopfield model for pattern recognition is considered in the static limit. Structures inside the patterns are modeled by Gaussian random variables that reward correlation between pairs of spins in a given…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-11 Theodorus Maria Nieuwenhuizen

We extend the existing work on Hopfield network state classification, employing more complex models that remain interpretable, such as densely-connected feed-forward deep neural networks and support vector machines. The states of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hayden McAlister , Anthony Robins , Lech Szymanski

We show how a Hopfield network with modifiable recurrent connections undergoing slow Hebbian learning can extract the underlying geometry of an input space. First, we use a slow/fast analysis to derive an averaged system whose dynamics…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-02-02 Mathieu N. Galtier , Olivier D. Faugeras , Paul C. Bressloff

We propose and analyze a new variation of the so-called {\em exponential Hopfield model}, a recently introduced family of associative neural networks with unprecedented storage capacity. Our construction is based on a cost function defined…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-09 Linda Albanese , Andrea Alessandrelli , Adriano Barra , Peter Sollich

Many transformations in deep learning architectures are sparsely connected. When such transformations cannot be designed by hand, they can be learned, even through plain backpropagation, for instance in attention mechanisms. However, during…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-23 Peter Bloem

In Hopfield-type associative memory models, memories are stored in the connectivity matrix and can be retrieved subsequently thanks to the collective dynamics of the network. In these models, the retrieval of a particular memory can be…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-21 Marco Benedetti , Nicolas Brunel , Enzo Marinari , Ulises Pereira Obilinovic

Multi-task learning is frequently used to model a set of related response variables from the same set of features, improving predictive performance and modeling accuracy relative to methods that handle each response variable separately.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-11 Snigdha Panigrahi , Natasha Stewart , Chandra Sekhar Sripada , Elizaveta Levina

Hopfield attractor networks are robust distributed models of human memory, but lack a general mechanism for effecting state-dependent attractor transitions in response to input. We propose construction rules such that an attractor network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Madison Cotteret , Hugh Greatorex , Martin Ziegler , Elisabetta Chicca

Networks in machine learning offer examples of complex high-dimensional dynamical systems reminiscent of biological systems. Here, we study the learning dynamics of Generalized Hopfield networks, which permit a visualization of internal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-12-07 Nacer Eddine Boukacem , Allen Leary , Robin Thériault , Felix Gottlieb , Madhav Mani , Paul François