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DRAM-based main memory and its associated components increasingly account for a significant portion of application performance bottlenecks and power budget demands inside the computing ecosystem. To alleviate the problems of storage density…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Fan Yao , Guru Venkataramani

The memory consistency model is a fundamental system property characterizing a multiprocessor. The relative merits of strict versus relaxed memory models have been widely debated in terms of their impact on performance, hardware complexity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Alexander Jaffe , Thomas Moscibroda , Laura Effinger-Dean , Luis Ceze , Karin Strauss

Interpretability of learning-to-rank models is a crucial yet relatively under-examined research area. Recent progress on interpretable ranking models largely focuses on generating post-hoc explanations for existing black-box ranking models,…

Model checking of strategic abilities for agents with memory is a notoriously hard problem, and very few attempts have been made to tackle it. In this paper, we present two important steps towards this goal. First, we take the partial-order…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Dilian Gurov , Filip Jamroga , Wojciech Jamroga , Mateusz Kamiński , Damian Kurpiewski , Wojciech Penczek , Teofil Sidoruk

In this article, we present a cognitive architecture that is built from powerful yet simple neural models. Specifically, we describe an implementation of the common model of cognition grounded in neural generative coding and holographic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Alexander Ororbia , M. A. Kelly

Episodic memory-based methods can rapidly latch onto past successful strategies by a non-parametric memory and improve sample efficiency of traditional reinforcement learning. However, little effort is put into the continuous domain, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Hao Hu , Jianing Ye , Guangxiang Zhu , Zhizhou Ren , Chongjie Zhang

Many modern workloads, such as neural networks, databases, and graph processing, are fundamentally memory-bound. For such workloads, the data movement between main memory and CPU cores imposes a significant overhead in terms of both latency…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Juan Gómez-Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Ivan Fernandez , Christina Giannoula , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Onur Mutlu

Large language models (LLMs) deployed in user-facing applications require long-horizon consistency: the ability to remember prior interactions, respect user preferences, and ground reasoning in past events. However, contemporary memory…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Daivik Patel , Shrenik Patel

Equipping agents with memory is essential for solving real-world long-horizon problems. However, most existing agent memory mechanisms rely on static and hand-crafted workflows. This limits the performance and generalization ability of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yupeng Huo , Yaxi Lu , Zhong Zhang , Haotian Chen , Yankai Lin

As memory technologies continue to shrink and memory error rates increase, the demand for stronger reliability becomes increasingly critical. Fine-grain memory replication has emerged as an appealing approach to improving memory fault…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Haris Volos , Yiannakis Sazeides

A weakly admissible mesh (WAM) on a continuum real-valued domain is a sequence of discrete grids such that the discrete maximum norm of polynomials on the grid is comparable to the supremum norm of polynomials on the domain. The asymptotic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Yiming Xu , Akil Narayan

The effective use of parallel computing resources to speed up algorithms in current multi-core parallel architectures remains a difficult challenge, with ease of programming playing a key role in the eventual success of various parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Arash Farzan , Alejandro López-Ortiz , Patrick K. Nicholson , Alejandro Salinger

Memory is an important aspect of intelligence and plays a role in many deep reinforcement learning models. However, little progress has been made in understanding when specific memory systems help more than others and how well they…

Many modern workloads such as neural network inference and graph processing are fundamentally memory-bound. For such workloads, data movement between memory and CPU cores imposes a significant overhead in terms of both latency and energy. A…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Gómez-Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Ivan Fernandez , Christina Giannoula , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Onur Mutlu

Memory units have been widely used to enrich the capabilities of deep networks on capturing long-term dependencies in reasoning and prediction tasks, but little investigation exists on deep generative models (DGMs) which are good at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Quantum random-access memory (QRAM) is a mechanism to access data (quantum or classical) based on addresses which are themselves a quantum state. QRAM has a long and controversial history, and here we survey and expand arguments and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Samuel Jaques , Arthur G. Rattew

Efficient and coherent data retrieval and storage are essential for harnessing quantum algorithms' speedup. Such a fundamental task is addressed by a quantum Random Access Memory (qRAM). Despite their promising scaling properties, current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Giuseppe De Riso , Giuseppe Catalano , Seth Lloyd , Vittorio Giovannetti , Dario De Santis

Memory disaggregation is being considered as a strong alternative to traditional architecture to deal with the memory under-utilization in data centers. Disaggregated memory can adapt to dynamically changing memory requirements for the data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Amit Puri , John Jose , Tamarapalli Venkatesh

Generalized additive models (GAMs) have become a leading modelclass for interpretable machine learning. However, there are many algorithms for training GAMs, and these can learn different or even contradictory models, while being equally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chun-Hao Chang , Sarah Tan , Ben Lengerich , Anna Goldenberg , Rich Caruana

Memory plays a pivotal role in enabling large language model~(LLM)-based agents to engage in complex and long-term interactions, such as question answering (QA) and dialogue systems. While various memory modules have been proposed for these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ruihong Zeng , Jinyuan Fang , Siwei Liu , Zaiqiao Meng