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2 unusual facts about Hopfield network


Attractor network

The fixed point attractor naturally follows from the Hopfield network.

Holonomic brain theory

The Hopfield memory model has an early memory saturation point before which memory retrieval drastically slows and becomes unreliable.


Gibbs measure

Gibbs measure implies the Markov property (a certain kind of statistical independence); and importantly, it implies the Hammersley–Clifford theorem that the energy function can be written as a multiplication of parts, thus leading to its widespread appearance in many problems outside of physics, such as Hopfield networks, Markov networks, and Markov logic networks.


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