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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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Qingchuan Ma , Shiao Wang , Tong Zheng , Xiaodong Dai , Yifeng Wang , Qingquan Yang , Xiao Wang

The Hebbian unlearning algorithm, i.e. an unsupervised local procedure used to improve the retrieval properties in Hopfield-like neural networks, is numerically compared to a supervised algorithm to train a linear symmetric perceptron. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-15 Marco Benedetti , Enrico Ventura , Enzo Marinari , Giancarlo Ruocco , Francesco Zamponi

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

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

Generative models, including diffusion models, are increasingly used as foundation models and adapted through sequential fine-tuning, making continual learning an essential problem setting. However, continual learning in such generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ken Takeda , Masafumi Oizumi , Ryo Karakida

Reasoning is the ability to integrate internal states and external inputs in a meaningful and semantically consistent flow. Contemporary machine learning (ML) systems increasingly rely on such sequential reasoning, from language…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Simone Betteti , Giacomo Baggio , Sandro Zampieri

We discuss how inference can be performed when data are sampled from the non-ergodic phase of systems with multiple attractors. We take as model system the finite connectivity Hopfield model in the memory phase and suggest a cavity method…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-09-03 A. Braunstein , A. Ramezanpour , R. Zecchina , P. Zhang

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

This paper presents a novel holistic deep learning framework that simultaneously addresses the challenges of vulnerability to input perturbations, overparametrization, and performance instability from different train-validation splits. The…

High-order extensions of the Hopfield model are known to exhibit dramatically enhanced storage capacity at equilibrium, while their dynamical retrieval properties remain less well understood. In our previous work, we carried out a dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-06 Yuto Sumikawa , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Recent studies point to the potential storage of a large number of patterns in the celebrated Hopfield associative memory model, well beyond the limits obtained previously. We investigate the properties of new fixed points to discover that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-22 Jacopo Rocchi , David Saad , Daniele Tantari

Modern Hopfield Networks (MHNs) have emerged as powerful components in deep learning, serving as effective replacements for pooling layers, LSTMs, and attention mechanisms. While recent advancements have significantly improved their storage…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yang Cao , Xiaoyu Li , Yuanpeng Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

Recent vision and multimodal foundation backbones, such as Transformer families and state-space models like Mamba, have achieved remarkable progress, enabling unified modeling across images, text, and beyond. Despite their empirical…

The Hopfield model describes a neural network that stores memories using all-to-all-coupled spins. Memory patterns are recalled under equilibrium dynamics. Storing too many patterns breaks the associative recall process because frustration…

Quantum computing allows for the potential of significant advancements in both the speed and the capacity of widely used machine learning techniques. Here we employ quantum algorithms for the Hopfield network, which can be used for pattern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Patrick Rebentrost , Thomas R. Bromley , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

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

In this work we are interested in the problems of supervised learning and variable selection when the input-output dependence is described by a nonlinear function depending on a few variables. Our goal is to consider a sparse nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-08-14 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Sofia Mosci , Matteo Santoro , Alessandro verri

We propose a neural hybrid model consisting of a linear model defined on a set of features computed by a deep, invertible transformation (i.e. a normalizing flow). An attractive property of our model is that both p(features), the density of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Eric Nalisnick , Akihiro Matsukawa , Yee Whye Teh , Dilan Gorur , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

To improve the storage capacity of the Hopfield model, we develop a version of the dreaming algorithm that perpetually reinforces the patterns to be stored (as in the Hebb rule), and erases the spurious memories (as in dreaming algorithms).…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-03 Ludovica Serricchio , Dario Bocchi , Claudio Chilin , Raffaele Marino , Matteo Negri , Chiara Cammarota , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi