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Dense Associative Memories or Modern Hopfield Networks have many appealing properties of associative memory. They can do pattern completion, store a large number of memories, and can be described using a recurrent neural network with a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Dmitry Krotov

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

We revisit the problem of characterising the mean-field limit of a network of Hopfield-like neurons. Building on the previous works of Ben Arous and Guionnet we establish for a large class of networks of Hopfield-like neurons, i.e. rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Olivier Faugeras , Etienne Tanré

This paper investigates the controllability of a broad class of recurrent neural networks widely used in theoretical neuroscience, including models of large-scale human brain dynamics. Motivated by emerging applications in non-invasive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Cyprien Tamekue , Ruiqi Chen , ShiNung Ching

The past few years have witnessed an increased interest in learning Hamiltonian dynamics in deep learning frameworks. As an inductive bias based on physical laws, Hamiltonian dynamics endow neural networks with accurate long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zhijie Chen , Mingquan Feng , Junchi Yan , Hongyuan Zha

We show how a Hopfield network with modifiable recurrent connections undergoing slow Hebbian learning can extract the underlying geometry of an input space. First, we use a slow/fast analysis to derive an averaged system whose dynamics…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-02-02 Mathieu N. Galtier , Olivier D. Faugeras , Paul C. Bressloff

We study both analytically and numerically the effects of including refractory periods in the Hopfield model for associative memory. These periods are introduced in the dynamics of the network as thresholds that depend on the state of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 C. R. da Silva , F. A. Tamarit , E. M. F. Curado

Reasoning is the ability to integrate internal states and external inputs in a meaningful and semantically consistent flow. Contemporary machine learning (ML) systems increasingly rely on such sequential reasoning, from language…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Simone Betteti , Giacomo Baggio , Sandro Zampieri

We propose a modification of the cost function of the Hopfield model whose salient features shine in its Taylor expansion and result in more than pairwise interactions with alternate signs, suggesting a unified framework for handling both…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-08 Adriano Barra , Matteo Beccaria , Alberto Fachechi

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

The neuronal paradigm of studying the brain has left us with limitations in both our understanding of how neurons process information to achieve biological intelligence and how such knowledge may be translated into artificial intelligence…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-12 Leo Kozachkov , Konstantinos P. Michmizos

The H\"uckel Hamiltonian is an incredibly simple tight-binding model famed for its ability to capture qualitative physics phenomena arising from electron interactions in molecules and materials. Part of its simplicity arises from using only…

Models of neural networks have proven their utility in the development of learning algorithms in computer science and in the theoretical study of brain dynamics in computational neuroscience. We propose in this paper a spatial neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Lucas Antiqueira , Liang Zhao

We consider continuous time Hopfield-like recurrent networks as dynamical models for gene regulation and neural networks. We are interested in networks that contain n high-degree nodes preferably connected to a large number of Ns weakly…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-03 Sergei Vakulenko , Ivan Morozov , Ovidiu Radulescu

The thermodynamic and retrieval properties of fully connected Blume-Emery-Griffiths networks, storing ternary patterns, are studied using replica mean-field theory. Capacity-temperature phase diagrams are derived for several values of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Bolle , T. Verbeiren

We consider a continuum model of electrical signals in the human cortex, which takes the form of a system of semilinear, hyperbolic partial differential equations for the inhibitory and excitatory membrane potentials and the synaptic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-22 Lennaert van Veen , Kevin Green

Continuous neural field models with inhomogeneous synaptic connectivities are known to support traveling fronts as well as stable bumps of localized activity. We analyze stationary localized structures in a neural field model with periodic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-03-29 Daniele Avitabile , Helmut Schmidt

An information theoretic approach inspired by quantum statistical mechanics was recently proposed as a means to optimize network models and to assess their likelihood against synthetic and real-world networks. Importantly, this method does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Carlo Nicolini , Vladimir Vlasov , Angelo Bifone

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

The dynamics of an extremely diluted neural network with high order synapses acting as corrections to the Hopfield model is investigated. As in the fully connected case, the high order terms may strongly improve the storage capacity of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. Lemke , J. J. Arenzon , F. A. Tamarit