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Despite explosive expansion of artificial intelligence based on artificial neural networks (ANNs), these are employed as "black boxes'', as it is unclear how, during learning, they form memories or develop unwanted features, including…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Adam E. Essex , Natalia B. Janson , Rachel A. Norris , Alexander G. Balanov

A modern challenge of Artificial Intelligence is learning multiple patterns at once (i.e.parallel learning). While this can not be accomplished by standard Hebbian associative neural networks, in this paper we show how the Multitasking…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-21 Elena Agliari , Andrea Alessandrelli , Adriano Barra , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

We introduce the Dreaming $L$-directional Associative Memory (DLAM), a multi-layer Hebbian architecture in which off-line dreaming and supervised heteroassociative coupling coexist within a single energy function, placing our approach…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-14 Adriano Barra , Fabrizio Durante , Andrea Ladiana , Michela Marra Solazzo

Despite advances in deep learning, neural networks can only learn multiple tasks when trained on them jointly. When tasks arrive sequentially, they lose performance on previously learnt tasks. This phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Nitin Kamra , Umang Gupta , Yan Liu

Experiments probing natural language processing by both humans and LLMs suggest that the meaning of a semantic expression is indeterminate prior to the act of interpretation rather than being specifiable simply as the sum of its parts (i.e.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Gowrav Vishwakarma , Christopher J. Agostino

Continual learning aims to provide intelligent agents capable of learning multiple tasks sequentially with neural networks. One of its main challenging, catastrophic forgetting, is caused by the neural networks non-optimal ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Ghada Sokar , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Dense Associative Memory (DenseAM) is a promising family of AI architectures that is represented by a neural network performing temporal dynamics on an energy landscape. While hyperparameter transfer methods are well-studied for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Roi Holtzman , Dmitry Krotov , Boris Hanin

Neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are among the main causes of cognitive dysfunction in humans. Both manifestations exhibit the extensive presence of focal axonal swellings (FAS). FAS compromises the information…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-27 Melanie Weber , Pedro D. Maia , J. Nathan Kutz

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

Deep learning-based cardiac segmentation has seen significant advancements over the years. Many studies have tackled the challenge of anatomically incorrect segmentation predictions by introducing auxiliary modules. These modules either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zahid Ullah , Jihie Kim

A central goal in deep learning is to learn compact representations of features at every layer of a neural network, which is useful for both unsupervised representation learning and structured network pruning. While there is a growing body…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jie Bu , Arka Daw , M. Maruf , Anuj Karpatne

Deep learning for medical imaging suffers from temporal and privacy-related restrictions on data availability. To still obtain viable models, continual learning aims to train in sequential order, as and when data is available. The main…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Marius Memmel , Camila Gonzalez , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

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

Hopfield neural networks are a possible basis for modelling associative memory in living organisms. After summarising previous studies in the field, we take a new look at learning rules, exhibiting them as descent-type algorithms for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Pavel Tolmachev , Jonathan H. Manton

This paper explores Memory-Augmented Neural Networks (MANNs), delving into how they blend human-like memory processes into AI. It covers different memory types, like sensory, short-term, and long-term memory, linking psychological theories…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Savya Khosla , Zhen Zhu , Yifei He

Continual Learning in artificial neural networks suffers from interference and forgetting when different tasks are learned sequentially. This paper introduces the Active Long Term Memory Networks (A-LTM), a model of sequential multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Tommaso Furlanello , Jiaping Zhao , Andrew M. Saxe , Laurent Itti , Bosco S. Tjan

We propose a novel method called Long Expressive Memory (LEM) for learning long-term sequential dependencies. LEM is gradient-based, it can efficiently process sequential tasks with very long-term dependencies, and it is sufficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 T. Konstantin Rusch , Siddhartha Mishra , N. Benjamin Erichson , Michael W. Mahoney

The network embedding task is to represent the node in the network as a low-dimensional vector while incorporating the topological and structural information. Most existing approaches solve this problem by factorizing a proximity matrix,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Yuchen Liang , Dmitry Krotov , Mohammed J. Zaki

A growing issue within conservation bioacoustics is the task of analysing the vast amount of data generated from the use of passive acoustic monitoring devices. In this paper, we present an alternative AI model which has the potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Andrew Gascoyne , Wendy Lomas

The field of artificial intelligence faces significant challenges in achieving both biological plausibility and computational efficiency, particularly in visual learning tasks. Current artificial neural networks, such as convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jacobo Ruiz , Manas Gupta