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The brain is a noisy system subject to energy constraints. These facts are rarely taken into account when modelling artificial neural networks. In this paper, we are interested in demonstrating that those factors can actually lead to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Eliott Coyac , Vincent Gripon , Charlotte Langlais , Claude Berrou

Constructing a consistent shared spatial memory is a critical challenge in multi-agent systems, where partial observability and limited bandwidth often lead to catastrophic failures in coordination. We introduce a multi-agent predictive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhengru Fang , Yu Guo , Yuang Zhang , Haonan An , Wenbo Ding , Yuguang Fang

The Hopfield associative memory model stores random patterns in synaptic couplings according to Hebb's rule and retrieves them through gradient descent on an energy function. This conventional setting, where neurons are assumed to have…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-23 Yoshiyuki Kabashima , Kazushi Mimura

The Hopfield model provides a mathematically idealized yet insightful framework for understanding the mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval in the human brain. This model has inspired four decades of extensive research on learning and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Simone Betteti , Giacomo Baggio , Francesco Bullo , Sandro Zampieri

This paper presents a new artificial neuron model capable of learning its receptive field in the topological domain of inputs. The model provides adaptive and differentiable local connectivity (plasticity) applicable to any domain. It…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-08 F. Boray Tek

Achieving human-like memory recall in artificial systems remains a challenging frontier in computer vision. Humans demonstrate remarkable ability to recall images after a single exposure, even after being shown thousands of images. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Virgile Foussereau , Robin Dumas

Understanding how infants perceive speech sounds and language structures is still an open problem. Previous research in artificial neural networks has mainly focused on large dataset-dependent generative models, aiming to replicate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xiaodan Chen , Alexandre Pitti , Mathias Quoy , Nancy F Chen

Predictive coding theory suggests that the brain continuously anticipates upcoming words to optimize language processing, but the neural mechanisms remain unclear, particularly in naturalistic speech. Here, we simultaneously recorded EEG…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-11 Nikola Kölbl , Konstantin Tziridis , Andreas Maier , Thomas Kinfe , Ricardo Chavarriaga , Achim Schilling , Patrick Krauss

Our daily perceptual experience is driven by different neural mechanisms that yield multisensory interaction as the interplay between exogenous stimuli and endogenous expectations. While the interaction of multisensory cues according to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-17 German I. Parisi , Jonathan Tong , Pablo Barros , Brigitte Röder , Stefan Wermter

This article underlines the learning and discrimination capabilities of a model of associative memory based on artificial networks of spiking neurons. Inspired from neuropsychology and neurobiology, the model implements top-down…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Anthony Mouraud , Hélène Paugam-Moisy

The unsupervised Pretraining method has been widely used in aiding human action recognition. However, existing methods focus on reconstructing the already present frames rather than generating frames which happen in future.In this paper, We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Yu Runsheng , Shi Zhenyu , Ma Qiongxiong , Qing Laiyun

People can learn rich, general-purpose conceptual representations from only raw perceptual inputs. Current machine learning approaches fall well short of these human standards, although different modeling traditions often have complementary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Reuben Feinman , Brenden M. Lake

The gap between the huge volumes of data needed to train artificial neural networks and the relatively small amount of data needed by their biological counterparts is a central puzzle in machine learning. Here, inspired by biological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-19 Miriam Aquaro , Francesco Alemanno , Ido Kanter , Fabrizio Durante , Elena Agliari , Adriano Barra

Continual learning tries to learn new tasks without forgetting previously learned ones. In reality, most of the existing artificial neural network(ANN) models fail, while humans do the same by remembering previous works throughout their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Subhankar Ghosh

Continual acquisition of novel experience without interfering previously learned knowledge, i.e. continual learning, is critical for artificial neural networks, but limited by catastrophic forgetting. A neural network adjusts its parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Liyuan Wang , Bo Lei , Qian Li , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yi Zhong

We consider the problem of neural association for a network of non-binary neurons. Here, the task is to first memorize a set of patterns using a network of neurons whose states assume values from a finite number of integer levels. Later,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Amir Hesam Salavati , K. Raj Kumar , Amin Shokrollahi

We investigate a new method to augment recurrent neural networks with extra memory without increasing the number of network parameters. The system has an associative memory based on complex-valued vectors and is closely related to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Ivo Danihelka , Greg Wayne , Benigno Uria , Nal Kalchbrenner , Alex Graves

Attractor dynamics are a fundamental computational motif in neural circuits, supporting diverse cognitive functions through stable, self-sustaining patterns of neural activity. In these lecture notes, we review four key examples that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-30 Tala Fakhoury , Elia Turner , Sushrut Thorat , Athena Akrami

Human vision involves parsing and representing objects and scenes using structured representations based on part-whole hierarchies. Computer vision and machine learning researchers have recently sought to emulate this capability using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ares Fisher , Rajesh P. N. Rao

The brain has computational capabilities that surpass those of modern systems, being able to solve complex problems efficiently in a simple way. Neuromorphic engineering aims to mimic biology in order to develop new systems capable of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Daniel Casanueva-Morato , Alvaro Ayuso-Martinez , Juan P. Dominguez-Morales , Angel Jimenez-Fernandez , Gabriel Jimenez-Moreno