Dynamic Manifold Hopfield Networks for Context-Dependent Associative Memory

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Main Authors: Li, Chong, Zeng, Taiping, Xue, Xiangyang, Feng, Jianfeng
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author Li, Chong
Zeng, Taiping
Xue, Xiangyang
Feng, Jianfeng
author_facet Li, Chong
Zeng, Taiping
Xue, Xiangyang
Feng, Jianfeng
contents Neural population activity in cortical and hippocampal circuits can be flexibly reorganized by context, suggesting that cognition relies on dynamic manifolds rather than static representations. However, how such dynamic organization can be realized mechanistically within a unified dynamical system remains unclear. Continuous Hopfield networks provide a classical attractor framework in which neural dynamics follow gradient descent on a fixed energy landscape, constraining retrieval within a static attractor manifold geometry. Extending this approach, we introduce Dynamic Manifold Hopfield Networks (DMHN), continuous dynamical models in which contextual modulation dynamically reshapes attractor geometry, transforming a static attractor manifold into a context-dependent family of neural manifolds. In DMHN, network interactions are learned in a data-driven manner, to intrinsically deform the geometry of its attractor manifold across cues without explicit context-specific parameterization. As a result, in associative retrieval, DMHN achieve substantially higher capacity and robustness than classical and modern Hopfield networks: when storing $2N$ patterns in a network of $N$ neurons, DMHN attain reliable retrieval with an average accuracy of 64%, compared with 1% and 13% for classical and modern variants, respectively. Together, these results establish dynamic reorganization of attractor manifold geometry as a principled mechanism for context-dependent remapping in neural associative memory.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Manifold Hopfield Networks for Context-Dependent Associative Memory
Li, Chong
Zeng, Taiping
Xue, Xiangyang
Feng, Jianfeng
Machine Learning
Neurons and Cognition
Neural population activity in cortical and hippocampal circuits can be flexibly reorganized by context, suggesting that cognition relies on dynamic manifolds rather than static representations. However, how such dynamic organization can be realized mechanistically within a unified dynamical system remains unclear. Continuous Hopfield networks provide a classical attractor framework in which neural dynamics follow gradient descent on a fixed energy landscape, constraining retrieval within a static attractor manifold geometry. Extending this approach, we introduce Dynamic Manifold Hopfield Networks (DMHN), continuous dynamical models in which contextual modulation dynamically reshapes attractor geometry, transforming a static attractor manifold into a context-dependent family of neural manifolds. In DMHN, network interactions are learned in a data-driven manner, to intrinsically deform the geometry of its attractor manifold across cues without explicit context-specific parameterization. As a result, in associative retrieval, DMHN achieve substantially higher capacity and robustness than classical and modern Hopfield networks: when storing $2N$ patterns in a network of $N$ neurons, DMHN attain reliable retrieval with an average accuracy of 64%, compared with 1% and 13% for classical and modern variants, respectively. Together, these results establish dynamic reorganization of attractor manifold geometry as a principled mechanism for context-dependent remapping in neural associative memory.
title Dynamic Manifold Hopfield Networks for Context-Dependent Associative Memory
topic Machine Learning
Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01303