Associative pattern recognition through macro-molecular self-assembly

DOI10.1007/S10955-017-1774-2zbMATH Open1378.82043arXiv1701.01769OpenAlexW3105878745MaRDI QIDQ2401481FDOQ2401481

Authors: Weishun Zhong, David Schwab, Arvind Murugan 

Publication date: 8 September 2017

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that macro-molecular self-assembly can recognize and classify high-dimensional patterns in the concentrations of $N$ distinct molecular species. Similar to associative neural networks, the recognition here leverages dynamical attractors to recognize and reconstruct partially corrupted patterns. Traditional parameters of pattern recognition theory, such as sparsity, fidelity, and capacity are related to physical parameters, such as nucleation barriers, interaction range, and non-equilibrium assembly forces. Notably, we find that self-assembly bears greater similarity to continuous attractor neural networks, such as place cell networks that store spatial memories, rather than discrete memory networks. This relationship suggests that features and trade-offs seen here are not tied to details of self-assembly or neural network models but are instead intrinsic to associative pattern recognition carried out through short-ranged interactions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01769

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zbMATH Keywords

pattern recognitionattractorsneural networksself-assemblyassociative memory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural nets applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C32)

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Uses Software

• ImageNet
• AlexNet

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