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One of the most well established brain principles, hebbian learning, has led to the theoretical concept of neural assemblies. Based on it, many interesting brain theories have spawned. Palm's work implements this concept through binary…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-06 Luis Sacouto , Andreas Wichert

The standard Hopfield model for associative neural networks accounts for biological Hebbian learning and acts as the harmonic oscillator for pattern recognition, however its maximal storage capacity is $\alpha \sim 0.14$, far from the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Alberto Fachechi , Elena Agliari , Adriano Barra

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

Sequential learning involves learning tasks in a sequence, and proves challenging for most neural networks. Biological neural networks regularly conquer the sequential learning challenge and are even capable of transferring knowledge both…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hayden McAlister , Anthony Robins , Lech Szymanski

We first pose the Unsupervised Progressive Learning (UPL) problem: an online representation learning problem in which the learner observes a non-stationary and unlabeled data stream, learning a growing number of features that persist over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 James Smith , Cameron Taylor , Seth Baer , Constantine Dovrolis

I introduce a novel associative memory model named Correlated Dense Associative Memory (CDAM), which integrates both auto- and hetero-association in a unified framework for continuous-valued memory patterns. Employing an arbitrary graph…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Thomas F Burns

Modern Hopfield Neural Networks (HNNs), also known as Dense Associative Memories (DAMs), enhance the performance of simple recurrent neural networks by leveraging the nonlinearities in their energy functions. They have broad applications in…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-12 Khalid Musa , Santosh Kumar , Michael Katidis , Yu-Ping Huang

We consider dense, associative neural-networks trained with no supervision and we investigate their computational capabilities analytically, via a statistical-mechanics approach, and numerically, via Monte Carlo simulations. In particular,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-04 Elena Agliari , Linda Albanese , Francesco Alemanno , Andrea Alessandrelli , Adriano Barra , Fosca Giannotti , Daniele Lotito , Dino Pedreschi

The need for large amounts of training data in modern machine learning is one of the biggest challenges of the field. Compared to the brain, current artificial algorithms are much less capable of learning invariance transformations and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Aleksandar Vučković , Benedikt Stock , Alexander V. Hopp , Mathias Winkel , Helmut Linde

Abundant real-world data can be naturally represented by large-scale networks, which demands efficient and effective learning algorithms. At the same time, labels may only be available for some networks, which demands these algorithms to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Tao He , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Yuan-Fang Li

Semi-supervised learning algorithms typically construct a weighted graph of data points to represent a manifold. However, an explicit graph representation is problematic for neural networks operating in the online setting. Here, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Alexander Genkin , Anirvan M. Sengupta , Dmitri Chklovskii

Spatiotemporal predictive learning offers a self-supervised learning paradigm that enables models to learn both spatial and temporal patterns by predicting future sequences based on historical sequences. Mainstream methods are dominated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Xuesong Nie , Xi Chen , Haoyuan Jin , Zhihang Zhu , Yunfeng Yan , Donglian Qi

The "fire together, wire together" Hebbian model is a central principle for learning in neuroscience, but surprisingly, it has found limited applicability in modern machine learning. In this paper, we take a first step towards bridging this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Aseem Wadhwa , Upamanyu Madhow

Introduction. Neural network models of autoassociative, distributed memory allow storage and retrieval of many items (vectors) where the number of stored items can exceed the vector dimension (the number of neurons in the network). This…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 V. I. Gritsenko , D. A. Rachkovskij , A. A. Frolov , R. Gayler , D. Kleyko , E. Osipov

This paper presents an unsupervised multi-modal learning system that learns associative representation from two input modalities, or channels, such that input on one channel will correctly generate the associated response at the other and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Ti Wang , Daniel L. Silver

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 brain performs unsupervised learning and (perhaps) simultaneous supervised learning. This raises the question as to whether a hybrid of supervised and unsupervised methods will produce better learning. Inspired by the rich space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Jeffrey Cheng , Ari Benjamin , Benjamin Lansdell , Konrad Paul Kordin

Brains learn to represent information from a large set of stimuli, typically by weak supervision. Unsupervised learning is therefore a natural approach for exploring the design of biological neural networks and their computations.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-17 Roy Urbach , Elad Schneidman

This work proposes deep network models and learning algorithms for unsupervised and supervised binary hashing. Our novel network design constrains one hidden layer to directly output the binary codes. This addresses a challenging issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Thanh-Toan Do , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ngai-Man Cheung

We introduce a three-dimensional vectorial extension of the Hopfield associative-memory model in which each neuron is a unit vector on $S^2$ and synaptic couplings are $3\times 3$ blocks generated through a vectorial Hebbian rule. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-10 F. Gallavotti , A. Zaccone