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The Hopfield network (1982) established a connection between recurrent neural networks and statistical mechanics via the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model.

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• IN ml-brain-inspiration-multiple-systems — Several machine learning architectures have documented connections to neuroscience: CNNs trace inspiration to Hubel and Wiesel's discovery of receptive fields in visual cortex, Hopfield networks established a link between recurrent neural networks and statistical mechanics (via the spin glass model rather than directly modeling neural assembly dynamics), and TD learning models dopamine-based prediction error signals in the basal ganglia.