Published March 1, 1990 | Version public
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On the number of spurious memories in the Hopfield model

Abstract

The outer-product method for programming the Hopfield model is discussed. The method can result in many spurious stable states-exponential in the number of vectors that are to be stored-even in the case when the vectors are orthogonal.

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© Copyright 1990 IEEE. Reprinted with permission. Manuscript received March 28, 1989; revised August 1989. This work was supported in part by AFOSR under contract 88-0024A, the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research under Contract N00014-86-K-0726, the SDIO/IST, managed by the Army Research Office under Contract DAAL03-87-K-0033, Rockwell International under Contract 6G3052, and the U.S. Army Research Contract DAAL03-86-K-0045. The material in this paper was presented in part at the IEEE Information Theory Symposium, San Diego, CA, January 14-19, 1990. The authors would like to thank Amir Dembo for introducing us to the problem.

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