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Recent research has established a connection between modern Hopfield networks (HNs) and transformer attention heads, with guarantees of exponential storage capacity. However, these models still face challenges scaling storage efficiently.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Saul Santos , António Farinhas , Daniel C. McNamee , André F. T. Martins

Recent generalizations of the Hopfield model of associative memories are able to store a number $P$ of random patterns that grows exponentially with the number $N$ of neurons, $P=\exp(\alpha N)$. Besides the huge storage capacity, another…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-14 Carlo Lucibello , Marc Mézard

We introduce a spherical Hopfield-type neural network involving neurons and patterns that are continuous variables. We study both the thermodynamics and dynamics of this model. In order to have a retrieval phase a quartic term is added to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Bolle , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen , I. Perez Castillo , T. Verbeiren

We study a simple extended model of oscillator neural networks capable of storing sparsely coded phase patterns, in which information is encoded both in the mean firing rate and in the timing of spikes. Applying the methods of statistical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Masaki Nomura , Toshio Aoyagi

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) provide a theoretical framework for understanding computation in biological neural circuits, yet classical results, such as Hopfield's model of associative memory, rely on symmetric connectivity that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-17 Ramón Nartallo-Kaluarachchi , Renaud Lambiotte , Alain Goriely

A large number of studies have shown the existence of metabolic covalent modifications in different molecular structures, able to store biochemical information that is not encoded by the DNA. Some of these covalent mark patterns can be…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-12 Ildefonso M. De la Fuente

Learning or memory formation are associated with the strengthening of the synaptic connections between neurons according to a pattern reflected by the input. According to this theory a retained memory sequence is associated to a dynamic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Pascal Chossat , Martin Krupa

We study a variant of the pseudo-inverse learning rule for Hopfield-like Neural Networks, which allows the network to infer archetypal concepts on the basis of a limited number of examples. The mean-field replica theory for this model…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-03 Marco Benedetti , Giulia Fischetti , Enzo Marinari , Gleb Oshanin , Victor Dotsenko

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

The potential for associative recall of diluted neuronal networks is investigated with respect to several biologically relevant configurations, more specifically the position of the cells along the input space and the spatial distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Dietrich Stauffer

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

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.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-11-15 Pascal Chossat , Martin Krupa , Frédéric Lavigne

In this work we solve the dynamics of pattern diluted associative networks, evolving via sequential Glauber update. We derive dynamical equations for the order parameters, that quantify the simultaneous pattern recall of the system, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-19 Silvia Bartolucci , Alessia Annibale

In this study we introduce a novel energy functional for long-sequence memory, building upon the framework of dense Hopfield networks which achieves exponential storage capacity through higher-order interactions. Building upon earlier work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ahmed Farooq

Asymptotic synchronization is one of the essential differences between artificial neural networks and biologically inspired neural networks due to mismatches from dynamical update of weight parameters and heterogeneous activations. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Yuncheng You

Spin-glass models of associative memories are a cornerstone between statistical physics and theoretical neuroscience. In these networks, stochastic spin-like units interact through a synaptic matrix shaped by local Hebbian learning. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-08 Gianni V. Vinci , Andrea Galluzzi , Maurizio Mattia

In this paper, we investigate the associative memory in recurrent neural networks, based on the model of evolving neural networks proposed by Nolfi, Miglino and Parisi. Experimentally developed network has highly asymmetric synaptic weights…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 Sh. Fujita , H. Nishimura

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…

We study both analytically and numerically the effects of including refractory periods in the Hopfield model for associative memory. These periods are introduced in the dynamics of the network as thresholds that depend on the state of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 C. R. da Silva , F. A. Tamarit , E. M. F. Curado

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