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We examine a previouly introduced attractor neural network model that explains the persistent activities of neurons in the anterior ventral temporal cortex of the brain. In this model, the coexistence of several attractors including…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Uezu , A. Hirano , M. Okada

Using probabilistic approach, the transient dynamics of sparsely connected Hopfield neural networks is studied for arbitrary degree distributions. A recursive scheme is developed to determine the time evolution of overlap parameters. As…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-11-09 Pan Zhang , Yong Chen

Attractor networks are an influential theory for memory storage in brain systems. This theory has recently been challenged by the observation of strong temporal variability in neuronal recordings during memory tasks. In this work, we study…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-02 Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic , Johnatan Aljadeff , Nicolas Brunel

Associative memory architectures such as the Hopfield network have long been important conceptual and theoretical models for neuroscience and artificial intelligence. However, translating these abstract models into spiking neural networks…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-02 William F. Podlaski , Christian K. Machens

Increasing the size of a Transformer does not always lead to enhanced performance. This phenomenon cannot be explained by the empirical scaling laws. Furthermore, the model's enhanced performance is closely associated with its memorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xueyan Niu , Bo Bai , Lei Deng , Wei Han

Networks in machine learning offer examples of complex high-dimensional dynamical systems reminiscent of biological systems. Here, we study the learning dynamics of Generalized Hopfield networks, which permit a visualization of internal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-12-07 Nacer Eddine Boukacem , Allen Leary , Robin Thériault , Felix Gottlieb , Madhav Mani , Paul François

Higher-order interactions underlie complex phenomena in systems such as biological and artificial neural networks, but their study is challenging due to the scarcity of tractable models. By leveraging a generalisation of the maximum entropy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-10 Miguel Aguilera , Pablo A. Morales , Fernando E. Rosas , Hideaki Shimazaki

The Hopfield model is a paradigmatic model of neural networks that has been analyzed for many decades in the statistical physics, neuroscience, and machine learning communities. Inspired by the manifold hypothesis in machine learning, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-01 Matteo Negri , Clarissa Lauditi , Gabriele Perugini , Carlo Lucibello , Enrico Malatesta

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

The Dense Associative Memory generalizes the Hopfield network by allowing for sharper interaction functions. This increases the capacity of the network as an autoassociative memory as nearby learned attractors will not interfere with one…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Hayden McAlister , Anthony Robins , Lech Szymanski

Neural population activity in cortical and hippocampal circuits can be flexibly reorganized by context, suggesting that cognition relies on dynamic manifolds rather than static representations. However, how such dynamic organization can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Chong Li , Taiping Zeng , Xiangyang Xue , Jianfeng Feng

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

When do language diffusion models memorize their training data, and how to quantitatively assess their true generative regime? We address these questions by showing that Uniform-based Discrete Diffusion Models (UDDMs) fundamentally behave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Bao Pham , Mohammed J. Zaki , Luca Ambrogioni , Dmitry Krotov , Matteo Negri

Autonomous randomly coupled neural networks display a transition to chaos at a critical coupling strength. We here investigate the effect of a time-varying input on the onset of chaos and the resulting consequences for information…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-21 Jannis Schuecker , Sven Goedeke , Moritz Helias

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

Dense Associative Memory (DAM) models generalize the classical Hopfield model by incorporating n-body or exponential interactions that greatly enhance storage capacity. While the criticality of DAM models has been largely investigated,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-19 Marco Cafiso , Paolo Paradisi

A large number of neural network models of associative memory have been proposed in the literature. These include the classical Hopfield networks (HNs), sparse distributed memories (SDMs), and more recently the modern continuous Hopfield…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Beren Millidge , Tommaso Salvatori , Yuhang Song , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rafal Bogacz

We study analytically and numerically a Hopfield fully-connected network with $d$-dimensional vector spins. These networks are models of associative memory that generalize the standard Hopfield with Ising spins, where $P$ examples are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-17 Flavio Nicoletti , Francesco D'Amico , Matteo Negri

It has been recently shown that a learning transition happens when a Hopfield Network stores examples generated as superpositions of random features, where new attractors corresponding to such features appear in the model. In this work we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-09 Silvio Kalaj , Clarissa Lauditi , Gabriele Perugini , Carlo Lucibello , Enrico M. Malatesta , Matteo Negri

Dense Associative Memories (DenseAMs) are generalizations of Hopfield networks, which have superior information storage capacity and can store training data points (memories) at local minima of the energy landscape. When the amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Bao Pham , Gabriel Raya , Matteo Negri , Mohammed J. Zaki , Luca Ambrogioni , Dmitry Krotov