In this paper we adapt the broken replica interpolation technique (developed by Francesco Guerra to deal with the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, namely a pairwise mean-field spin-glass whose couplings are i.i.d. standard Gaussian variables) in order to work also with the Hopfield model (i.e. a pairwise meanfield neural-network whose couplings are drawn according to Hebb's learning rule): this is accomplished by grafting Guerra's telescopic averages on the transport equation technique, recently developed by some of the authors. As an overture, we apply the technique to solve the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with i.i.d. Gaussian couplings centered at J 0 and with finite variance J; the mean J 0 provides a ferromagnetic contribution to be detected in a noisy environment tuned by J, hence making this model a natural test-case to be investigated before addressing the Hopfield model. For both the models, an explicit expression of their quenched free energy in terms of their natural order parameters is obtained at the Kth step (K arbitrary, but finite) of replica-symmetry-breaking. In particular, for the Hopfield model, by assuming that the overlaps respect Parisi's decomposition (following the ziqqurat ansatz) and that the Mattis magnetization is self-averaging, we recover previous results obtained via replica-trick by Amit, Crisanti and Gutfreund (1RSB) and by Steffan and Kühn (2RSB).

We consider a multi-layer Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin-glass as a model for deep restricted Boltzmann machines and we solve for its quenched free energy, in the thermodynamic limit and allowing for a first step of replica symmetry breaking. This result is accomplished rigorously exploiting interpolating techniques and recovering the expression already known for the replica-symmetry case. Further, we drop the restriction constraint by introducing intra-layer connections among spins and we show that the resulting system can be mapped into a modular Hopfield network, which is also addressed rigorously via interpolating techniques up to the first step of replica symmetry breaking.

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