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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

The Hopfield model is a paradigmatic model of neural networks that has been analyzed for many decades in the statistical physics, neuroscience, and machine learning communities. Inspired by the manifold hypothesis in machine learning, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-01 Matteo Negri , Clarissa Lauditi , Gabriele Perugini , Carlo Lucibello , Enrico Malatesta

We generalize the standard Hopfield model to the case when a weight is assigned to each input pattern. The weight can be interpreted as the frequency of the pattern occurrence at the input of the network. In the framework of the statistical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-07 Iakov Karandashev , Boris Kryzhanovsky , Leonid Litinskii

Artificial neural networks can be used to solve a variety of robotic tasks. However, they risk failing catastrophically when faced with out-of-distribution (OOD) situations. Several approaches have employed a type of synaptic plasticity…

Artificial networks have been studied through the prism of statistical mechanics as disordered systems since the 80s, starting from the simple models of Hopfield's associative memory and the single-neuron perceptron classifier. Assuming…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-04-14 Marylou Gabrié , Surya Ganguli , Carlo Lucibello , Riccardo Zecchina

Associative memory has been a prominent candidate for the computation performed by the massively recurrent neocortical networks. Attractor networks implementing associative memory have offered mechanistic explanation for many cognitive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Naresh Balaji Ravichandran , Anders Lansner , Pawel Herman

Auto-associative neural networks (e.g., the Hopfield model implementing the standard Hebbian prescription) serve as a foundational framework for pattern recognition and associative memory in statistical mechanics. However, their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-03 Elena Agliari , Andrea Alessandrelli , Adriano Barra , Martino Salomone Centonze , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

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

In neuroscience, classical Hopfield networks are the standard biologically plausible model of long-term memory, relying on Hebbian plasticity for storage and attractor dynamics for recall. In contrast, memory-augmented neural networks in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-28 Danil Tyulmankov , Ching Fang , Annapurna Vadaparty , Guangyu Robert Yang

Place-cell networks, typically forced to pairwise synaptic interactions, are widely studied as models of cognitive maps: such models, however, share a severely limited storage capacity, scaling linearly with network size and with a very…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-24 Adriano Barra , Martino S. Centonze , Michela Marra Solazzo , Daniele Tantari

The Hopfield network (HN) is a classical model of associative memory whose dynamics are closely related to the Ising spin system with 2-body interactions. Stored patterns are encoded as minima of an energy function shaped by a Hebbian…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Marco Cafiso , Paolo Paradisi

Statistical mechanics of spin glasses is one of the main strands toward a comprehension of information processing by neural networks and learning machines. Tackling this approach, at the fairly standard replica symmetric level of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-12-18 Linda Albanese , Andrea Alessandrelli , Alessia Annibale , Adriano Barra

The relativistic Hopfield model constitutes a generalization of the standard Hopfield model that is derived by the formal analogy between the statistical-mechanic framework embedding neural networks and the Lagrangian mechanics describing a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Elena Agliari , Adriano Barra , Matteo Notarnicola

Hopfield networks are a variant of associative memory that recall information stored in the couplings of an Ising model. Stored memories are fixed points for the network dynamics that correspond to energetic minima of the spin state. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hadayat Seddiqi , Travis S. Humble

The mutual information, I, of the three-state neural network can be obtained exactly for the mean-field architecture, as a function of three macroscopic parameters: the overlap, the neural activity and the {\em activity-overlap}, i.e. the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 David R. Dominguez Carreta , Elka Korutcheva

A model of the columnar functional organization of neocortical association areas is studied. The neuronal network is composed of many Hebbian autoassociators, or modules, each of which interacts with a relatively small number of the others.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-05-14 Carlo Fulvi Mari

In biological systems, neuromodulation tunes synaptic plasticity based on the internal state of the organism, complementing stimulus-driven Hebbian learning. The algorithm recently proposed by Krotov and Hopfield \cite{krotov_2019} can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-09 Başer Tambaş , A. Levent Subaşı , Alkan Kabakçıoğlu

We consider the training process of a neural network as a dynamical system acting on the high-dimensional weight space. Each epoch is an application of the map induced by the optimization algorithm and the loss function. Using this induced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Iva Manojlović , Maria Fonoberova , Ryan Mohr , Aleksandr Andrejčuk , Zlatko Drmač , Yannis Kevrekidis , Igor Mezić

Spin-glass models of associative memories are a cornerstone between statistical physics and theoretical neuroscience. In these networks, stochastic spin-like units interact through a synaptic matrix shaped by local Hebbian learning. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-08 Gianni V. Vinci , Andrea Galluzzi , Maurizio Mattia

We study the synchronous dynamics of the Hopfield model when a random antisymmetric part is added to the otherwise symmetric synaptic matrix. We use a generating functional technique to derive analytical expressions for the order parameters…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoranjan P. Singh