We study the recognition capabilities of the Hopfield model with auxiliary hidden layers, which emerge naturally upon a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. We show that the recognition capabilities of such a model at zero temperature outperform those of the original Hopfield model, due to a substantial increase of the storage capacity and the lack of a naturally defined basin of attraction. The modified model does not fall abruptly into the regime of complete confusion when memory load exceeds a sharp threshold. This latter circumstance, together with an increase of the storage capacity, renders such a modified Hopfield model a promising candidate for further research, with possible diverse applications.

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• Critical phenomena
• Memory
• Order parameters
• Phase diagrams
• Transition temperature
• Disordered systems
• Spin glasses
• Hopfield model
• Metropolis algorithm
• Monte Carlo methods