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The slowing of Moore's law and the increasing energy demands of machine learning present critical challenges for both the hardware and machine learning communities, and drive the development of novel computing paradigms. Of particular…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Taosha Guo , Arie Ogranovich , Arvind R. Venkatakrishnan , Madelyn R. Shapiro , Francesco Bullo , Fabio Pasqualetti

Traditional functional connectivity based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can only capture pairwise interactions between brain regions. Hypergraphs, which reveal high-order relationships among multiple brain regions, have…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-20 Wenqi Hu , Xuerui Su , Guanliang Li , Yidi Pan , Aijing Lin

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

Associative memory models such as the Hopfield network and its dense generalizations with higher-order interactions exhibit a "blackout catastrophe" -- a discontinuous transition where stable memory states abruptly vanish when the number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-24 David G. Clark

We consider a generalization of the Hopfield model, where the entries of patterns are Gaussian and diluted. We focus on the high-storage regime and we investigate analytically the topological properties of the emergent network, as well as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-09-28 Elena Agliari , Lorenzo Asti , Adriano Barra , Raffaella Burioni , Guido Uguzzoni

The Little-Hopfield network is an auto-associative computational model of neural memory storage and retrieval. This model is known to robustly store collections of randomly generated binary patterns as stable-states of the network dynamics.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-30 Christopher Hillar , Ngoc Tran , Kilian Koepsell

The complexity of multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) in multiagent systems increases exponentially with respect to the agent number. This scalability issue prevents MARL from being applied in large-scale multiagent systems. However,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Chuangchuang Sun , Macheng Shen , Jonathan P. How

While linear attention architectures offer efficient inference, compressing unbounded history into a fixed-size memory inherently limits expressivity and causes information loss. To address this limitation, we introduce Random Access Memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Kaicheng Xiao , Haotian Li , Liran Dong , Guoliang Xing

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

While Hopfield networks are known as paradigmatic models for memory storage and retrieval, modern artificial intelligence systems mainly stand on the machine learning paradigm. We show that it is possible to formulate a teacher-student…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-02 Francesco Alemanno , Luca Camanzi , Gianluca Manzan , Daniele Tantari

We discuss how inference can be performed when data are sampled from the non-ergodic phase of systems with multiple attractors. We take as model system the finite connectivity Hopfield model in the memory phase and suggest a cavity method…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-09-03 A. Braunstein , A. Ramezanpour , R. Zecchina , P. Zhang

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

Recent advances in associative memory design through structured pattern sets and graph-based inference algorithms have allowed reliable learning and recall of an exponential number of patterns. Although these designs correct external errors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Amin Karbasi , Amir Hesam Salavati , Amin Shokrollahi , Lav R. Varshney

This paper examines the memory capacity of generalized neural networks. Hopfield networks trained with a variety of learning techniques are investigated for their capacity both for binary and non-binary alphabets. It is shown that the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Matt Stowe , Subhash Kak

Associative memories are data structures that allow retrieval of stored messages from part of their content. They thus behave similarly to human brain that is capable for instance of retrieving the end of a song given its beginning. Among…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Bartosz Boguslawski , Vincent Gripon , Fabrice Seguin , Frédéric Heitzmann

Associative memory or content addressable memory is an important component function in computer science and information processing and is a key concept in cognitive and computational brain science. Many different neural network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Anders Lansner , Naresh B Ravichandran , Pawel Herman

Networks can describe the structure of a wide variety of complex systems by specifying which pairs of entities in the system are connected. While such pairwise representations are flexible, they are not necessarily appropriate when the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jean-Gabriel Young , Giovanni Petri , Tiago P. Peixoto

We investigate a new method to augment recurrent neural networks with extra memory without increasing the number of network parameters. The system has an associative memory based on complex-valued vectors and is closely related to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Ivo Danihelka , Greg Wayne , Benigno Uria , Nal Kalchbrenner , Alex Graves

We analyze the Blume-Emery-Griffiths (BEG) associative memory with sparse patterns and at zero temperature. We give bounds on its storage capacity provided that we want the stored patterns to be fixed points of the retrieval dynamics. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Judith Heusel , Matthias Löwe

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