1982 CE
Hopfield networks and associative memory
Artificial intelligence · Neural networks
John Hopfield presented recurrent networks whose dynamics could retrieve stored patterns. The model connected statistical-physics ideas with neural computation and provided a framework for studying distributed memories.
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- 1982-04-15
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