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Hopfield models, originally developed to study memory retrieval in neural networks, have become versatile tools for modeling diverse biological systems in which function emerges from collective dynamics. In this review, we provide a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Maria Yampolskaya , Pankaj Mehta

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

Associative memory has been a prominent candidate for the computation performed by the massively recurrent neocortical networks. Attractor networks implementing associative memory have offered mechanistic explanation for many cognitive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Naresh Balaji Ravichandran , Anders Lansner , Pawel Herman

The brain can reproduce memories from partial data; this ability is critical for memory recall. The process of memory recall has been studied using auto-associative networks such as the Hopfield model. This kind of model reliably converges…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-18 James P. Roach , Leonard M Sander , Michal R. Zochowski

The ability to quickly learn new knowledge (e.g. new classes or data distributions) is a big step towards human-level intelligence. In this paper, we consider scenarios that require learning new classes or data distributions quickly and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Fei Mi , Tao Lin , Boi Faltings

We show that the structure of a growing tree preserves an information on the shape of an initial graph. For the exponential trees, evidence of this kind of memory is provided by means of the iterative equations, derived for the moments of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Malarz , K. Kulakowski

The Dense Associative Memory generalizes the Hopfield network by allowing for sharper interaction functions. This increases the capacity of the network as an autoassociative memory as nearby learned attractors will not interfere with one…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Hayden McAlister , Anthony Robins , Lech Szymanski

Associative memory models, such as Hopfield networks and their modern variants, have garnered renewed interest due to advancements in memory capacity and connections with self-attention in transformers. In this work, we introduce a unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Saul Santos , Vlad Niculae , Daniel McNamee , André F. T. Martins

Neural networks based on metric recognition methods have a strictly determined architecture. Number of neurons, connections, as well as weights and thresholds values are calculated analytically, based on the initial conditions of tasks:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Polad Geidarov

It has been demonstrated that one of the most striking features of the nervous system, the so called 'plasticity' (i.e high adaptability at different structural levels) is primarily based on Hebbian learning which is a collection of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Szirtes , Zs. Palotai , A. Lorincz

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

The Hopfield network (HN) is a classical model of associative memory whose dynamics are closely related to the Ising spin system with 2-body interactions. Stored patterns are encoded as minima of an energy function shaped by a Hebbian…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Marco Cafiso , Paolo Paradisi

Deep neural networks are state-of-the-art models for understanding the content of images, video and raw input data. However, implementing a deep neural network in embedded systems is a challenging task, because a typical deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Xichuan Zhou , Shengli Li , Kai Qin , Kunping Li , Fang Tang , Shengdong Hu , Shujun Liu , Zhi Lin

Federated learning enables collaborative training without sharing raw data, but struggles under client heterogeneity and streaming distribution shifts, where drift and novel data can impair convergence and cause forgetting. We propose a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-23 Andrea Alessandrelli , Fabrizio Durante , Andrea Ladiana , Andrea Lepre

Learning features invariant to arbitrary transformations in the data is a requirement for any recognition system, biological or artificial. It is now widely accepted that simple cells in the primary visual cortex respond to features while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Jayanta K. Dutta , Bonny Banerjee

The Hopfield network has been applied to solve optimization problems over decades. However, it still has many limitations in accomplishing this task. Most of them are inherited from the optimization algorithms it implements. The computation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xiaofei Huang

Real growing networks like the WWW or personal connection based networks are characterized by a high degree of clustering, in addition to the small-world property and the absence of a characteristic scale. Appropriate modifications of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gabor Szabo , Mikko Alava , Janos Kertesz

Quantum computing allows for the potential of significant advancements in both the speed and the capacity of widely used machine learning techniques. Here we employ quantum algorithms for the Hopfield network, which can be used for pattern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Patrick Rebentrost , Thomas R. Bromley , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

We introduce the Dreaming $L$-directional Associative Memory (DLAM), a multi-layer Hebbian architecture in which off-line dreaming and supervised heteroassociative coupling coexist within a single energy function, placing our approach…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-14 Adriano Barra , Fabrizio Durante , Andrea Ladiana , Michela Marra Solazzo

We unify recent neural approaches to one-shot learning with older ideas of associative memory in a model for metalearning. Our model learns jointly to represent data and to bind class labels to representations in a single shot. It builds…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Adam Trischler