Now in PRE: "Transient dynamics of associative memory models." I argue that the "blackout catastrophe" is not catastrophic when viewed from an out-of-equilibrium, dynamical perspective.
Journal: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/42y2-bsh1
PDF: dclark.io/media/clark-...
Associative memory models such as the Hopfield network and its dense generalizations with higher-order interactions exhibit a ``blackout catastrophe''---a discontinuous transition where stable memory ...
