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Classical Hopfield networks are limited to static patterns due to symmetric weights, whereas asymmetric networks can encode temporal sequences via limit-cycle attractors. Achieving high-capacity storage of long sequences in classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Aakash Kumar , Anatoly Khina , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Emanuele Natale

Associative memory is a fundamental function in the brain. Here, we generalize the standard associative memory model to include long-range Hebbian interactions at the learning stage, corresponding to a large synaptic integration window. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-21 Jianwen Zhou , Zijian Jiang , Tianqi Hou , Ziming Chen , K Y Michael Wong , Haiping Huang

Memory-augmented spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient neuromorphic computing, yet their generalization across sensory modalities remains unexplored. We present the first comprehensive cross-modal ablation study of memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Effiong Blessing , Chiung-Yi Tseng , Somshubhra Roy , Junaid Rehman , Isaac Nkrumah

We study a model of associative memory based on a neural network with small-world structure. The efficacy of the network to retrieve one of the stored patterns exhibits a phase transition at a finite value of the disorder. The more ordered…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 Luis G. Morelli , Guillermo Abramson , Marcelo N. Kuperman

Content-addressable memories such as Modern Hopfield Networks (MHN) have been studied as mathematical models of auto-association and storage/retrieval in the human declarative memory, yet their practical use for large-scale content storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Satyananda Kashyap , Niharika S. D'Souza , Luyao Shi , Ken C. L. Wong , Hongzhi Wang , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

Humans have the ability to rapidly understand rich combinatorial concepts from limited data. Here we investigate this ability in the context of auditory signals, which have been evolved in a cultural transmission experiment to study the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Matthias Hofer , Tuan Anh Le , Roger Levy , Josh Tenenbaum

Replay in neural networks involves training on sequential data with memorized samples, which counteracts forgetting of previous behavior caused by non-stationarity. We present a method where these auxiliary samples are generated on the fly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xu Ji , Joao Henriques , Tinne Tuytelaars , Andrea Vedaldi

The neural mechanism of memory has a very close relation with the problem of representation in artificial intelligence. In this paper a computational model was proposed to simulate the network of neurons in brain and how they process…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-02 Hui Wei

This paper describes a process for combining patterns and features, to guide a search process and make predictions. It is based on the functionality that a human brain might have, which is a highly distributed network of simple neuronal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Kieran Greer

Among the performance-enhancing procedures for Hopfield-type networks that implement associative memory, Hebbian Unlearning (or dreaming) strikes for its simplicity and its clear biological interpretation. Yet, it does not easily lend…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-28 Marco Benedetti , Louis Carillo , Enzo Marinari , Marc Mèzard

The Hopfield network model and its generalizations were introduced as a model of associative, or content-addressable, memory. They were widely investigated both as an unsupervised learning method in artificial intelligence and as a model of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-10 Marco Cafiso , Paolo Paradisi

Humans excel at continually acquiring, consolidating, and retaining information from an ever-changing environment, whereas artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. There are considerable differences in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

We introduce the sparse modern Hopfield model as a sparse extension of the modern Hopfield model. Like its dense counterpart, the sparse modern Hopfield model equips a memory-retrieval dynamics whose one-step approximation corresponds to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Donglin Yang , Dennis Wu , Chenwei Xu , Bo-Yu Chen , Han Liu

Neural network models capable of storing memory have been extensively studied in computer science and computational neuroscience. The Hopfield network is a prototypical example of a model designed for associative, or content-addressable,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-24 Marco Cafiso , Paolo Paradisi

Associative memory or content addressable memory is an important component function in computer science and information processing and is a key concept in cognitive and computational brain science. Many different neural network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Anders Lansner , Naresh B Ravichandran , Pawel Herman

Biological mixtures, such as the cellular cytoplasm, are composed of a large number of different components. From this heterogeneity, ordered mesoscopic structures emerge, such as liquid phases with controlled composition. These structures…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Rodrigo Braz Teixeira , Giorgio Carugno , Izaak Neri , Pablo Sartori

In this paper, we introduce a novel audio-visual multi-modal bridging framework that can utilize both audio and visual information, even with uni-modal inputs. We exploit a memory network that stores source (i.e., visual) and target (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Minsu Kim , Joanna Hong , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

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

This paper studies the capability of a recurrent neural network model to memorize random dynamical firing patterns by a simple local learning rule. Two modes of learning/memorization are considered: The first mode is strictly online, with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Patrick Murer , Hans-Andrea Loeliger

In this work we introduce and investigate the properties of the "relativistic" Hopfield model endowed with temporally correlated patterns. First, we review the "relativistic" Hopfield model and we briefly describe the experimental evidence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Elena Agliari , Alberto Fachechi , Chiara Marullo