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In this paper we introduce and investigate the statistical mechanics of hierarchical neural networks: First, we approach these systems \`a la Mattis, by thinking at the Dyson model as a single-pattern hierarchical neural network and we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-02 Elena Agliari , Adriano Barra , Andrea Galluzzi , Francesco Guerra , Daniele Tantari , Flavia Tavani

In this work we propose an energy functional along the lines of Modern Hopfield Networks (MNH), the stationary points of which correspond to the attention due to Vaswani et al. [12], thus unifying both frameworks. The minima of this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-16 Ahmed Farooq

This paper introduces the first theoretical framework for quantifying the efficiency and performance gain opportunity size of adaptive inference algorithms. We provide new approximate and exact bounds for the achievable efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Soheil Hor , Ying Qian , Mert Pilanci , Amin Arbabian

The structure of continuous Hopfield networks is revisited from a system-theoretic point of view. After adopting a novel electrical network interpretation involving nonlinear capacitors, it is shown that Hopfield networks admit a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Arjan van der Schaft

Hebbian learning limits Hopfield network storage capacity (pattern-to-neuron ratio around 0.14). We propose Kernel Logistic Regression (KLR) learning. Unlike linear methods, KLR uses kernels to implicitly map patterns to high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Akira Tamamori

Associative memory models retrieve stored information through content-based addressing, mimicking the neural processes of animal brains. The classical Hopfield network-based models store memories as vectors of discrete values and have good…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Nurani Rajagopal Rohan , V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy , Sayan Gupta

We study the recognition capabilities of the Hopfield model with auxiliary hidden layers, which emerge naturally upon a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. We show that the recognition capabilities of such a model at zero-temperature…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-16 Marco Benedetti , Victor Dotsenko , Giulia Fischetti , Enzo Marinari , Gleb Oshanin

The state space of a conventional Hopfield network typically exhibits many different attractors of which only a small subset satisfy constraints between neurons in a globally optimal fashion. It has recently been demonstrated that combining…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-09-02 Alexander Woodward , Tom Froese , Takashi Ikegami

This study addresses the critical challenge of predicting the Q-distribution in long-term stable nuclear fusion task, a key component for advancing clean energy solutions. We introduce an innovative deep learning framework that employs…

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Several novel frameworks for hyperparameter search have emerged in the last decade, but most rely on strict, often normal, distributional assumptions, limiting search model flexibility. This paper proposes a novel optimization framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Riccardo Doyle

quest for processing speed potential. In fact, we always get a fraction of the technically available computing power (so-called {\em theoretical peak}), and the gap is likely to go hand-to-hand with the hardware complexity of the target…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Claude Tadonki

A fundamental roadblock to the exact numerical solution of many-fermion problems is the exponential growth of the Hilbert space with system size. It manifests as extreme dynamical memory and computation-time requirements for simulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-01 Prabhakar , Anamitra Mukherjee

We study the fundamental problem of selecting optimal features for model construction. This problem is computationally challenging on large datasets, even with the use of greedy algorithm variants. To address this challenge, we extend the…

Priming is the ability of the brain to more quickly activate a target concept in response to a related stimulus (prime). Experiments point to the existence of an overlap between the populations of the neurons coding for different stimuli.…

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The primate heteromodal cortex presents an evident functional modularity at a mesoscopic level, with physiological and anatomical evidence pointing to it as likely substrate of long-term memory. In order to investigate some of its…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-09 Carlo Fulvi Mari

Equipping artificial agents with useful exploration mechanisms remains a challenge to this day. Humans, on the other hand, seem to manage the trade-off between exploration and exploitation effortlessly. In the present article, we put…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Marcel Binz , Eric Schulz

Conditional lower bounds based on $P\neq NP$, the Exponential-Time Hypothesis (ETH), or similar complexity assumptions can provide very useful information about what type of algorithms are likely to be possible. Ideally, such lower bounds…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Dániel Marx

We study the problem of learning associative memory -- a system which is able to retrieve a remembered pattern based on its distorted or incomplete version. Attractor networks provide a sound model of associative memory: patterns are stored…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-21 Sergey Bartunov , Jack W Rae , Simon Osindero , Timothy P Lillicrap

Reservoir computing is a highly efficient machine learning framework for processing temporal data by extracting features from the input signal and mapping them into higher dimensional spaces. Physical reservoir layers have been realized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Md Razuan Hossain , Ahmed Salah Mohamed , Nicholas Xavier Armendarez , Joseph S. Najem , Md Sakib Hasan

We introduce a neural network with a recurrent attention model over a possibly large external memory. The architecture is a form of Memory Network (Weston et al., 2015) but unlike the model in that work, it is trained end-to-end, and hence…

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