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Intelligence necessitates memory. Without memory, humans fail to perform various nontrivial tasks such as reading novels, playing games or solving maths. As the ultimate goal of machine learning is to derive intelligent systems that learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hung Le

While linear attention architectures offer efficient inference, compressing unbounded history into a fixed-size memory inherently limits expressivity and causes information loss. To address this limitation, we introduce Random Access Memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Kaicheng Xiao , Haotian Li , Liran Dong , Guoliang Xing

Associative memories are structures that store data in such a way that it can later be retrieved given only a part of its content -- a sort-of error/erasure-resilience property. They are used in applications ranging from caches and memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Vincent Gripon , Michael Rabbat

Learning and memory are intertwined in our brain and their relationship is at the core of several recent neural network models. In particular, the Attention-Gated MEmory Tagging model (AuGMEnT) is a reinforcement learning network with an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-19 Marco Martinolli , Wulfram Gerstner , Aditya Gilra

A robot operating in a household makes observations of multiple objects as it moves around over the course of days or weeks. The objects may be moved by inhabitants, but not completely at random. The robot may be called upon later to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yilun Du , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie Kaelbling

Personalized AI assistants must recall and reason over long-term user memory, which naturally spans multiple modalities and sources such as images, videos, and emails. However, existing Long-term Memory benchmarks focus primarily on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jingbiao Mei , Jinghong Chen , Guangyu Yang , Xinyu Hou , Margaret Li , Bill Byrne

I propose a novel dual-attention model(DAM) for aspect-level sentiment classification. Many methods have been proposed, such as support vector machines for artificial design features, long short-term memory networks based on attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mengfei Ye

We present SAM, a biologically-plausible selective attention-driven modulation approach to enhance classification models in a continual learning setting. Inspired by neurophysiological evidence that the primary visual cortex does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Giovanni Bellitto , Federica Proietto Salanitri , Matteo Pennisi , Matteo Boschini , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara , Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato

This paper presents a neural network model (associative memory model) for memory and recall of images. In this model, only a single neuron can memorize multi-images and when that neuron is activated, it is possible to recall all the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Hiroshi Inazawa

The key challenge of sequence representation learning is to capture the long-range temporal dependencies. Typical methods for supervised sequence representation learning are built upon recurrent neural networks to capture temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Wenjie Pei , Xin Feng , Canmiao Fu , Qiong Cao , Guangming Lu , Yu-Wing Tai

Clinical decision-making agents can benefit from reusing prior decision experience. However, many memory-augmented methods store experiences as independent records without explicit relational structure, which may introduce noisy retrieval,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiao Han , Yuzheng Fan , Sendong Zhao , Haochun Wang , Bing Qin

With the rapid advancement of AI systems, their abilities to store, retrieve, and utilize information over the long term - referred to as long-term memory - have become increasingly significant. These capabilities are crucial for enhancing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zihong He , Weizhe Lin , Hao Zheng , Fan Zhang , Matt W. Jones , Laurence Aitchison , Xuhai Xu , Miao Liu , Per Ola Kristensson , Junxiao Shen

Growing neuropsychological and neurophysiological evidence suggests that the visual cortex uses parts-based representations to encode, store and retrieve relevant objects. In such a scheme, objects are represented as a set of spatially…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-13 Jenia Jitsev , Christoph von der Malsburg

Dense Associative Memories or Modern Hopfield Networks have many appealing properties of associative memory. They can do pattern completion, store a large number of memories, and can be described using a recurrent neural network with a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Dmitry Krotov

The abilities to perceive, learn, and use generalities, similarities, classes, i.e., semantic memory (SM), is central to cognition. Machine learning (ML), neural network, and AI research has been primarily driven by tasks requiring such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Rod Rinkus , Jasmin Leveille

The self-attention mechanism has emerged as a critical component for improving the performance of various backbone neural networks. However, current mainstream approaches individually incorporate newly designed self-attention modules (SAMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zhongzhan Huang , Senwei Liang , Mingfu Liang , Liang Lin

Stack-augmented recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been of interest to the deep learning community for some time. However, the difficulty of training memory models remains a problem obstructing the widespread use of such models. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yikang Shen , Shawn Tan , Arian Hosseini , Zhouhan Lin , Alessandro Sordoni , Aaron Courville

The concepts of unitary evolution matrices and associative memory have boosted the field of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to state-of-the-art performance in a variety of sequential tasks. However, RNN still have a limited capacity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Rumen Dangovski , Li Jing , Marin Soljacic

Neural Turing Machines (NTM) contain memory component that simulates "working memory" in the brain to store and retrieve information to ease simple algorithms learning. So far, only linearly organized memory is proposed, and during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Wei Zhang , Yang Yu , Bowen Zhou

Intelligent devices have become deeply integrated into everyday life, generating vast amounts of user interactions that form valuable personal knowledge. Efficient organization of this knowledge in user memory is essential for enabling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yijie Zhong , Mengying Guo , Zewei Wang , Zhongyang Li , Dandan Tu , Haofen Wang