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The primate heteromodal cortex presents an evident functional modularity at a mesoscopic level, with physiological and anatomical evidence pointing to it as likely substrate of long-term memory. In order to investigate some of its…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-09 Carlo Fulvi Mari

The co-evolution of structure and dynamics, known as adaptivity, is a fundamental property in various systems and drives diverse emergent behaviors. However, the adaptivity in previous works is primarily stemmed from pairwise situations,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-22 Longzhao Liu , Hongwei Zheng , Zhihao Han , Xin Wang , Shaoting Tang

Associative memory systems enable content-addressable storage and retrieval of patterns, a capability central to biological neural computation and artificial intelligence. Classical implementations such as Hopfield networks face fundamental…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Arie Ogranovich , Taosha Guo , Arvind R. Venkatakrishnan , Madelyn Shapiro , Francesco Bullo , Fabio Pasqualetti

One way of introducing sparsity into deep networks is by attaching an external table of parameters that is sparsely looked up at different layers of the network. By storing the bulk of the parameters in the external table, one can increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Cenk Baykal , Dylan J Cutler , Nishanth Dikkala , Nikhil Ghosh , Rina Panigrahy , Xin Wang

To explore the relation between network structure and function, we studied the computational performance of Hopfield-type attractor neural nets with regular lattice, random, small-world and scale-free topologies. The random net is the most…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick N. Mcgraw , Michael Menzinger

In this paper, we introduce a novel layer designed to be used as the output of pre-trained neural networks in the context of classification. Based on Associative Memories, this layer can help design Deep Neural Networks which support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Quentin Jodelet , Vincent Gripon , Masafumi Hagiwara

Parity functions are fundamental Boolean operations with critical applications across machine learning, cryptography, and error correction. Yet, learning high-dimensional parity functions poses significant challenges: in a general setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Guillaume Larue , Louis-Adrien Dufrène , Quentin Lampin , Hadi Ghauch , Ghaya Rekaya

Simultaneously recorded neurons exhibit correlations whose underlying causes are not known. Here, we use a population of threshold neurons receiving correlated inputs to model neural population recordings. We show analytically that small…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2010-09-20 Jakob H Macke , Manfred Opper , Matthias Bethge

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

Fully connected Blume-Emery-Griffiths neural networks performing pattern recognition and associative memory have been heuristically studied in the past (mainly via the replica trick and under the replica symmetric assumption) as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-13 Linda Albanese , Andrea Alessandrelli , Adriano Barra , Emilio N. M. Cirillo

Turing theory of pattern formation is among the most popular theoretical means to account for the variety of spatio-temporal structures observed in Nature and, for this reason, finds applications in many different fields. While Turing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Luca Gallo , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca , Timoteo Carletti

Two-tower models are a prevalent matching framework for recommendation, which have been widely deployed in industrial applications. The success of two-tower matching attributes to its efficiency in retrieval among a large number of items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Liangcai Su , Fan Yan , Jieming Zhu , Xi Xiao , Haoyi Duan , Zhou Zhao , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang

A social interaction (so-called higher-order event/interaction) can be regarded as the activation of the hyperlink among the corresponding individuals. Social interactions can be, thus, represented as higher-order temporal networks, that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-12 H. A. Bart Peters , Alberto Ceria , Huijuan Wang

"Sparse" neural networks, in which relatively few neurons or connections are active, are common in both machine learning and neuroscience. Whereas in machine learning, "sparsity" is related to a penalty term that leads to some connecting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Luca Manneschi , Andrew C. Lin , Eleni Vasilaki

Tabular datasets are widely used in scientific disciplines such as biology. While these disciplines have already adopted AI methods to enhance their findings and analysis, they mainly use tree-based methods due to their interpretability. At…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Salvatore Raieli , Nathalie Jeanray , Stéphane Gerart , Sebastien Vachenc , Abdulrahman Altahhan

We study the benefits of different sparse architectures for deep reinforcement learning. In particular, we focus on image-based domains where spatially-biased and fully-connected architectures are common. Using these and several other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Fatima Davelouis , John D. Martin , Michael Bowling

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

Dense Associative Memory (DAM) generalizes Hopfield networks through higher-order interactions and achieves storage capacity that scales as $O(N^{n-1})$ under suitable pattern separation conditions. Existing dynamical analyses primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Madhava Gaikwad

We propose a novel architecture to design a neural associative memory that is capable of learning a large number of patterns and recalling them later in presence of noise. It is based on dividing the neurons into local clusters and parallel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Amin Karbasi , Amir Hesam Salavati , Amin Shokrollahi

A complex system with many interacting individuals can be represented by a network consisting of nodes and links representing individuals and pairwise interactions, respectively. However, real-world systems grow with time and include many…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-12 Soo Min Oh , Yongsun Lee , Byungnam Kahng