Associative Memories via Predictive Coding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08063v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:46:26 GMT
• Title: Associative Memories via Predictive Coding
• Authors: Tommaso Salvatori, Yuhang Song, Yujian Hong, Simon Frieder, Lei Sha, Zhenghua Xu, Rafal Bogacz, Thomas Lukasiewicz
• Abstract summary: Associative memories in the brain receive and store patterns of activity registered by the sensory neurons. We present a novel neural model for realizing associative memories based on a hierarchical generative network that receives external stimuli via sensory neurons.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Associative memories in the brain receive and store patterns of activity registered by the sensory neurons, and are able to retrieve them when necessary. Due to their importance in human intelligence, computational models of associative memories have been developed for several decades now. They include autoassociative memories, which allow for storing data points and retrieving a stored data point $s$ when provided with a noisy or partial variant of $s$, and heteroassociative memories, able to store and recall multi-modal data. In this paper, we present a novel neural model for realizing associative memories, based on a hierarchical generative network that receives external stimuli via sensory neurons. This model is trained using predictive coding, an error-based learning algorithm inspired by information processing in the cortex. To test the capabilities of this model, we perform multiple retrieval experiments from both corrupted and incomplete data points. In an extensive comparison, we show that this new model outperforms in retrieval accuracy and robustness popular associative memory models, such as autoencoders trained via backpropagation, and modern Hopfield networks. In particular, in completing partial data points, our model achieves remarkable results on natural image datasets, such as ImageNet, with a surprisingly high accuracy, even when only a tiny fraction of pixels of the original images is presented. Furthermore, we show that this method is able to handle multi-modal data, retrieving images from descriptions, and vice versa. We conclude by discussing the possible impact of this work in the neuroscience community, by showing that our model provides a plausible framework to study learning and retrieval of memories in the brain, as it closely mimics the behavior of the hippocampus as a memory index and generative model.

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