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The ability of discrete-time nonlinear recurrent neural networks to store time-varying small input signals is investigated by mean-field theory. The combination of a small input strength and mean-field assumptions makes it possible to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-25 Taichi Haruna , Kohei Nakajima

We present an algorithm to store binary memories in a Hopfield neural network using minimum probability flow, a recent technique to fit parameters in energy-based probabilistic models. In the case of memories without noise, our algorithm…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-21 Christopher Hillar , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Kilian Koepsell

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

We investigated the effects of synaptic depression on the macroscopic behavior of stochastic neural networks. Dynamical mean field equations were derived for such networks by taking the average of two stochastic variables: a firing state…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-03-08 Yasuhiko Igarashi , Masafumi Oizumi , Masato Okada

Dense Associative Memory networks (DenseAMs) unify several popular paradigms in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as Hopfield Networks, transformers, and diffusion models, while casting their computational properties into the language of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Spencer Rooke , Dmitry Krotov , Vijay Balasubramanian , David Wolpert

This paper describes how realistic neuromorphic networks can have their connectivity fully characterized in analytical fashion. By assuming that all neurons have the same shape and are regularly distributed along the two-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Marconi Soares Barbosa

Natural memories are associative, declarative and distributed. Symbolic computing memories resemble natural memories in their declarative character, and information can be stored and recovered explicitly; however, they lack the associative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Luis A. Pineda , Gibrán Fuentes , Rafael Morales

Auto-associative neural networks (e.g., the Hopfield model implementing the standard Hebbian prescription) serve as a foundational framework for pattern recognition and associative memory in statistical mechanics. However, their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-03 Elena Agliari , Andrea Alessandrelli , Adriano Barra , Martino Salomone Centonze , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Many models used in artificial intelligence and cognitive science rely on multi-element patterns stored in "slots" - dedicated storage locations - in a digital computer. As biological brains likely lack slots, we consider how they might…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Shaunak Bhandarkar , James L. McClelland

We introduce and study a nonlinear discrete dynamical system describing the evolution of a resource distribution among interacting agents. The model generalizes several classical mean-field and opinion-dynamics frameworks and is defined on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Oksana Satur

We perform an ab-initio comparison between nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory and optical lattice experiments by studying the time evolution of double occupations in the periodically driven Fermi-Hubbard model. For off-resonant…

In this work we introduce and investigate the properties of the "relativistic" Hopfield model endowed with temporally correlated patterns. First, we review the "relativistic" Hopfield model and we briefly describe the experimental evidence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Elena Agliari , Alberto Fachechi , Chiara Marullo

Restricted Boltzmann Machines are key tools in Machine Learning and are described by the energy function of bipartite spin-glasses. From a statistical mechanical perspective, they share the same Gibbs measure of Hopfield networks for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Elena Agliari , Adriano Barra , Chiara Longo , Daniele Tantari

We analyze continuous Hopfield associative memories augmented by additional, rapid short-term associative synaptic plasticity. Through the cavity method, we determine the boundary between the retrieval and forgetting, or spin-glass phase,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-10 Martina Del Gaudio , Federico Ghimenti , Surya Ganguli

We present an analytically solvable random graph model in which the connections between the nodes can evolve in time, adiabatically slowly compared to the dynamics of the nodes. We apply the formalism to finite connectivity attractor neural…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Wemmenhove , N. S. Skantzos

Understanding the theoretical foundations of how memories are encoded and retrieved in neural populations is a central challenge in neuroscience. A popular theoretical scenario for modeling memory function is the attractor neural network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-17 Alireza Alemi , Carlo Baldassi , Nicolas Brunel , Riccardo Zecchina

We study the two-dimensional paramagnetic Anderson-Hubbard model using an extension of dynamical mean-field theory that allows us to treat disorder and strong electronic correlations on equal footing. We investigate the scaling of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yun Song , R. Wortis , W. A. Atkinson

Classical autoassociative memory models have been central to understanding emergent computations in recurrent neural circuits across diverse biological contexts. However, they typically neglect neuromodulatory agents that are known to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-17 Daiki Goto , Hector Manuel Lopez Rios , Monika Scholz , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

A model of the columnar functional organization of neocortical association areas is studied. The neuronal network is composed of many Hebbian autoassociators, or modules, each of which interacts with a relatively small number of the others.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-05-14 Carlo Fulvi Mari

The synchronous dynamics and the stationary states of a recurrent attractor neural network model with competing synapses between symmetric sequence processing and Hebbian pattern reconstruction is studied in this work allowing for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 F. L. Metz , W. K. Theumann