Associative memory
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Associative memory may refer to:
- A type of memoryMemoryIn psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing memory....
closely associated with neural networks. - A recent technology that involves creating a memory of multiple databases, both structured and unstructured data, and making associations in a manner that is similar to the human brain's memory functions.
- Bidirectional Associative MemoryBidirectional Associative MemoryBidirectional associative memory is a type of recurrent neural network. BAM was introduced by Bart Kosko in 1988. There are two types of associative memory, auto-associative and hetero-associative. BAM is hetero-associative, meaning given a pattern it can return another pattern which is...
- Autoassociative memoryAutoassociative memoryAutoassociative memory, also known as auto-association memory or an autoassociation network, is often misunderstood to be only a form of backpropagation or other neural networks...
- Hopfield netHopfield netA Hopfield network is a form of recurrent artificial neural network invented by John Hopfield. Hopfield nets serve as content-addressable memory systems with binary threshold units. They are guaranteed to converge to a local minimum, but convergence to one of the stored patterns is not guaranteed...
- Bidirectional Associative Memory
- Content-addressable memoryContent-addressable memoryContent-addressable memory is a special type of computer memory used in certain very high speed searching applications. It is also known as associative memory, associative storage, or associative array, although the last term is more often used for a programming data structure...
, a type of computer memory - Transderivational searchTransderivational searchTransderivational search is a psychological and cybernetics term, meaning when a search is being conducted for a fuzzy match across a broad field. In computing the equivalent function can be performed using content-addressable memory.Unlike usual searches, which look for literal Transderivational...
, an aspect of human memory