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We investigate a new method to augment recurrent neural networks with extra memory without increasing the number of network parameters. The system has an associative memory based on complex-valued vectors and is closely related to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Ivo Danihelka , Greg Wayne , Benigno Uria , Nal Kalchbrenner , Alex Graves

Attention mechanism has gained great success in vision recognition. Many works are devoted to improving the effectiveness of attention mechanism, which finely design the structure of the attention operator. These works need lots of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Shanshan Zhong , Wushao Wen , Jinghui Qin

Conventional Supervised Learning approaches focus on the mapping from input features to output labels. After training, the learnt models alone are adapted onto testing features to predict testing labels in isolation, with training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yi Luo , Aiguo Chen , Bei Hui , Ke Yan

Sequential learning involves learning tasks in a sequence, and proves challenging for most neural networks. Biological neural networks regularly conquer the sequential learning challenge and are even capable of transferring knowledge both…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hayden McAlister , Anthony Robins , Lech Szymanski

We present an approach for agents to learn representations of a global map from sensor data, to aid their exploration in new environments. To achieve this, we embed procedures mimicking that of traditional Simultaneous Localization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jingwei Zhang , Lei Tai , Ming Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

We investigate how feature correlations influence the capacity of Dense Associative Memory (DAM), a Transformer attention-like model. Practical machine learning scenarios involve feature-correlated data and learn representations in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Stefan Bielmeier , Gerald Friedland

This paper introduces a neural network model that learns multiple attributes as images and performs associated, sequential recall of the learned memories. Briefly, the model presented here is an associative memory model that extends…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Hiroshi Inazawa

External memory is a key component of modern large language model (LLM) systems, enabling long-term interaction and personalization. Despite its importance, memory management is still largely driven by hand-designed heuristics, offering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Changzhi Sun , Xiangyu Chen , Jixiang Luo , Dell Zhang , Xuelong Li

Typical neural networks with external memory do not effectively separate capacity for episodic and working memory as is required for reasoning in humans. Applying knowledge gained from psychological studies, we designed a new model called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-01 T. S. Jayram , Younes Bouhadjar , Ryan L. McAvoy , Tomasz Kornuta , Alexis Asseman , Kamil Rocki , Ahmet S. Ozcan

Recently, large pre-trained neural language models have attained remarkable performance on many downstream natural language processing (NLP) applications via fine-tuning. In this paper, we target at how to further improve the token…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Mengyuan Zhou , Jian Ma , Haiqin Yang , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo

Humans learn and form memories in stochastic environments. Auto-associative memory systems model these processes by storing patterns and later recovering them from corrupted versions. Here, memories are learned by associating each pattern…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Qin He , Jing Shuang Li

Processing spatial data is a key component in many learning tasks for autonomous driving such as motion forecasting, multi-agent simulation, and planning. Prior works have demonstrated the value in using SE(2) invariant network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ethan Pronovost , Neha Boloor , Peter Schleede , Noureldin Hendy , Andres Morales , Nicholas Roy

In neuroscience, attention has been shown to bidirectionally interact with reinforcement learning (RL) processes. This interaction is thought to support dimensionality reduction of task representations, restricting computations to relevant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Lennart Bramlage , Aurelio Cortese

Relational reasoning is a central component of generally intelligent systems, enabling robust and data-efficient inductive generalization. Recent empirical evidence shows that many existing neural architectures, including Transformers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Awni Altabaa , John Lafferty

This position paper aims to rethink the role and design of memory in Large Language Model (LLM)-based agent systems. We observe that while current memory practices have begun to transcend the limitations of single interactions, they remain…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Haichang Li

An associative memory (AM) enables cue-response recall, and associative memorization has recently been noted to underlie the operation of modern neural architectures such as Transformers. This work addresses a distributed setting where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Bowen Wang , Matteo Zecchin , Osvaldo Simeone

An associative memory is a framework of content-addressable memory that stores a collection of message vectors (or a dataset) over a neural network while enabling a neurally feasible mechanism to recover any message in the dataset from its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-30 Arya Mazumdar , Ankit Singh Rawat

Transformer-based models show their effectiveness across multiple domains and tasks. The self-attention allows to combine information from all sequence elements into context-aware representations. However, global and local information has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Aydar Bulatov , Yuri Kuratov , Mikhail S. Burtsev

Inspired by the cognitive science theory of the explicit human memory systems, we have modeled an agent with short-term, episodic, and semantic memory systems, each of which is modeled with a knowledge graph. To evaluate this system and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Taewoon Kim , Michael Cochez , Vincent François-Lavet , Mark Neerincx , Piek Vossen

Neuron models of associative memory provide a new and prospective technology for reliable date storage and patterns recognition. However, even when the patterns are uncorrelated, the efficiency of most known models of associative memory is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 B. V. Kryzhanovsky , L. B. Litinskii , A. Fonarev