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We discuss prototype formation in the Hopfield network. Typically, Hebbian learning with highly correlated states leads to degraded memory performance. We show this type of learning can lead to prototype formation, where unlearned states…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hayden McAlister , Anthony Robins , Lech Szymanski

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

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 or content-addressable memory is an important component function in computer science and information processing, and at the same time a key concept in cognitive and computational brain science. Many different neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Anders Lansner , Andreas Knoblauch , Naresh B Ravichandran , Pawel Herman

Hebbian synaptic plasticity inevitably leads to interference and forgetting when different, overlapping memory patterns are sequentially stored in the same network. Recent work on artificial neural networks shows that an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-16 Michael Deistler , Martino Sorbaro , Michael E. Rule , Matthias H. Hennig

The Hebbian unlearning algorithm, i.e. an unsupervised local procedure used to improve the retrieval properties in Hopfield-like neural networks, is numerically compared to a supervised algorithm to train a linear symmetric perceptron. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-15 Marco Benedetti , Enrico Ventura , Enzo Marinari , Giancarlo Ruocco , Francesco Zamponi

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

The Hopfield recurrent neural network is a classical auto-associative model of memory, in which collections of symmetrically-coupled McCulloch-Pitts neurons interact to perform emergent computation. Although previous researchers have…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-09 Christopher Hillar , Ngoc M. Tran

Memory is a key component of biological neural systems that enables the retention of information over a huge range of temporal scales, ranging from hundreds of milliseconds up to years. While Hebbian plasticity is believed to play a pivotal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Thomas Limbacher , Ozan Özdenizci , Robert Legenstein

In \cite{Hop82}, Hopfield introduced a \emph{Hebbian} learning rule based neural network model and suggested how it can efficiently operate as an associative memory. Studying random binary patterns, he also uncovered that, if a small…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-05 Mihailo Stojnic

We analyze a variant of the Hopfield model that incorporates an unlearning mechanism based on spin correlations in the high-temperature regime. In the large system limit where extensively many patterns are stored, we employ the replica…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-10 Shuta Takeuchi , Takashi Takahashi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) show limited performance with scarce or imbalanced training data and face challenges with continuous learning, such as forgetting previously learned data after new tasks training. In contrast, the human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Anthony Bazhenov , Pahan Dewasurendra , Giri P. Krishnan , Jean Erik Delanois

We introduce a model of generalized Hebbian learning and retrieval in oscillatory neural networks modeling cortical areas such as hippocampus and olfactory cortex. Recent experiments have shown that synaptic plasticity depends on spike…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Silvia Scarpetta , Zhaoping Li , John Hertz

Associative memory, a form of content-addressable memory, facilitates information storage and retrieval in many biological and physical systems. In statistical mechanics models, associative memory at equilibrium is represented through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-08 Agnish Kumar Behera , Madan Rao , Srikanth Sastry , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Catastrophic forgetting/interference is a critical problem for lifelong learning machines, which impedes the agents from maintaining their previously learned knowledge while learning new tasks. Neural networks, in particular, suffer plenty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Soheil Kolouri , Nicholas Ketz , Xinyun Zou , Jeffrey Krichmar , Praveen Pilly

In this paper we study robust synchronization of time-fractional Hopfield neural networks with memristive couplings and Hebbian learning rules. This new model of artificial neural networks exhibits strong memory and long-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Yuncheng You

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

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

Neural networks are supposed to recognise blurred images (or patterns) of $N$ pixels (bits) each. Application of the network to an initial blurred version of one of $P$ pre-assigned patterns should converge to the correct pattern. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dietrich Stauffer , Amnon Aharony , Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Joan Adler

We present a Hopfield-like autoassociative network for memories representing examples of concepts. Each memory is encoded by two activity patterns with complementary properties. The first is dense and correlated across examples within…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-28 Louis Kang , Taro Toyoizumi