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Associative memory with high information content

Physical review. A, General physicsPublished 1 March 1989
Joachim M. Buhmann, R. Divko, Klaus Schulten
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Abstract

An extension of Hopfield's model with adaptive threshold and inhibitory interactions yields a network capable of nearly optimal storage of patterns of low activity. A replica symmetric solution of the mean-field equations is presented for the noise-free case. The following properties are demonstrated: For a low level of activity a the storage capacity increases as -(a lna${)}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}1}$; up to 0.38 bits per synapse can be stored; spurious states can be suppressed; the network is not opinionated, i.e., it can categorize inputs as not similar enough to patterns stored.

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