Don’t Forget About Associative Memories

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Don't Forget About Associative Memories

There are many cases where you need something more powerful than basic statistical analysis, yet not as complex or compute-intensive as a deep neural network.

Associative Memory is an approach dating from the Multilayer Perceptron era, that may prove to be surprisingly useful, yet languishes in the shadows of deep learning.