 Hebbian memory weights for a Hopfield network

For $M$ binary units and desired patterns ${\xi }^{\mu }$, use these symmetric weights and set $w_{ii}=0$. For one pattern, the field at that pattern is $(M-1){\xi }_i/M$, so it is stable. Several patterns add cross-talk terms; storage by this rule alone does not guarantee stability of every arbitrary collection of patterns.