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Traffic forecasting is a challenging problem due to complex road networks and sudden speed changes caused by various events on roads. A number of models have been proposed to solve this challenging problem with a focus on learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Hyunwook Lee , Seungmin Jin , Hyeshin Chu , Hongkyu Lim , Sungahn Ko

Although Transformers with fully connected self-attentions are powerful to model long-term dependencies, they are struggling to scale to long texts with thousands of words in language modeling. One of the solutions is to equip the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Haozhe Ji , Rongsheng Zhang , Zhenyu Yang , Zhipeng Hu , Minlie Huang

Accurate short-term energy consumption forecasting is essential for efficient power grid management, resource allocation, and market stability. Traditional time-series models often fail to capture the complex, non-linear dependencies and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Abhishek Maity , Viraj Tukarul

Recently, integrating visual foundation models into large language models (LLMs) to form video understanding systems has attracted widespread attention. Most of the existing models compress diverse semantic information within the whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Dingxin Cheng , Mingda Li , Jingyu Liu , Yongxin Guo , Bin Jiang , Qingbin Liu , Xi Chen , Bo Zhao

With the growing adoption of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in persistent, real-world roles, they naturally encounter continuous streams of tasks and inevitable failures. A key limitation, however, is their inability to systematically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xuanbo Su , Yingfang Zhang , Hao Luo , Xiaoteng Liu , Leo Huang

A practical large language model (LLM) service may involve a long system prompt, which specifies the instructions, examples, and knowledge documents of the task and is reused across requests. However, the long system prompt causes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Lei Zhu , Xinjiang Wang , Wayne Zhang , Rynson W. H. Lau

MLLMs exhibit strong reasoning on isolated queries, yet they operate de novo -- solving each problem independently and often repeating the same mistakes. Existing memory-augmented agents mainly store past trajectories for reuse. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Weihao Bo , Shan Zhang , Yanpeng Sun , Jingjing Wu , Qunyi Xie , Xiao Tan , Kunbin Chen , Wei He , Xiaofan Li , Na Zhao , Jingdong Wang , Zechao Li

Modeling episodic memory (EM) remains a significant challenge in both neuroscience and AI, with existing models either lacking interpretability or struggling with practical applications. This paper proposes the Vision-Language Episodic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-09 Chong Li , Taiping Zeng , Xiangyang Xue , Jianfeng Feng

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have led to breakthroughs in natural language processing and speech recognition, wherein hundreds of millions of people use such tools on a daily basis through smartphones, email servers and other avenues.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-02 Sun-Ting Tsai , En-Jui Kuo , Pratyush Tiwary

Humans can learn in a continuous manner. Old rarely utilized knowledge can be overwritten by new incoming information while important, frequently used knowledge is prevented from being erased. In artificial learning systems, lifelong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Rahaf Aljundi , Francesca Babiloni , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Marcus Rohrbach , Tinne Tuytelaars

Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to harness user-item interaction histories for item generation has emerged as a promising paradigm in generative recommendation. However, the limited context window of LLMs often restricts them to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Chengbing Wang , Yang Zhang , Fengbin Zhu , Jizhi Zhang , Tianhao Shi , Fuli Feng

Embodied task planning requires agents to execute long-horizon, goal-directed actions in complex 3D environments, where success depends on both immediate perception and accumulated experience across tasks. However, most existing LLM-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiaoyu Ma , Lianyu Hu , Wenbing Tang , Zixuan Hu , Zeqin Liao , Zhizhen Wu , Yang Liu

Modern language agents must operate over long-horizon, multi-turn interactions, where they retrieve external information, adapt to observations, and answer interdependent queries. Yet, most LLM systems rely on full-context prompting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zijian Zhou , Ao Qu , Zhaoxuan Wu , Sunghwan Kim , Alok Prakash , Daniela Rus , Jinhua Zhao , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low , Paul Pu Liang

Recurrent networks of spiking neurons (RSNNs) underlie the astounding computing and learning capabilities of the brain. But computing and learning capabilities of RSNN models have remained poor, at least in comparison with artificial neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Guillaume Bellec , Darjan Salaj , Anand Subramoney , Robert Legenstein , Wolfgang Maass

The LSTM network was proposed to overcome the difficulty in learning long-term dependence, and has made significant advancements in applications. With its success and drawbacks in mind, this paper raises the question - do RNN and LSTM have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-11 Jingyu Zhao , Feiqing Huang , Jia Lv , Yanjie Duan , Zhen Qin , Guodong Li , Guangjian Tian

Online video understanding requires models to perform continuous perception and long-range reasoning within potentially infinite visual streams. Its fundamental challenge lies in the conflict between the unbounded nature of streaming media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Siwei Wen , Zhangcheng Wang , Xingjian Zhang , Lei Huang , Wenjun Wu

Long sequence neural memory remains a challenging problem. RNNs and their variants suffer from vanishing gradients, and Transformers suffer from quadratic scaling. Furthermore, compressing long sequences into a finite fixed representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Liyu Zerihun , Alexandr Plashchinsky

To enable embodied agents to operate effectively over extended timeframes, it is crucial to develop models that form and access memories to stay contextualized in their environment. In the current paradigm of training transformer-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Gunshi Gupta , Karmesh Yadav , Zsolt Kira , Yarin Gal , Rahaf Aljundi

This study explores the learnability of memory-less and memory-augmented RNNs, which are theoretically equivalent to Pushdown Automata. Empirical results show that these models often fail to generalize on longer sequences, relying more on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shrabon Das , Ankur Mali

Modern machine learning models are deployed in diverse, non-stationary environments where they must continually adapt to new tasks and evolving knowledge. Continual fine-tuning and in-context learning are costly and brittle, whereas neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Max S. Bennett , Thomas P. Zollo , Richard Zemel