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Neural network models can now recognise images, understand text, translate languages, and play many human games at human or superhuman levels. These systems are highly abstracted, but are inspired by biological brains and use only…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-06 Katherine R. Storrs , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Intelligent systems must maintain and manipulate task-relevant information online to adapt to dynamic environments and changing goals. This capacity, known as working memory, is fundamental to human reasoning and intelligence. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hua-Dong Xiong , Li Ji-An , Jiaqi Huang , Robert C. Wilson , Kwonjoon Lee , Xue-Xin Wei

Past work has long recognized the important role of context in guiding how humans search their memory. While context-based memory models can explain many memory phenomena, it remains unclear why humans develop such architectures over…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-24 Nikolaus Salvatore , Qiong Zhang

Memory networks are neural networks with an explicit memory component that can be both read and written to by the network. The memory is often addressed in a soft way using a softmax function, making end-to-end training with backpropagation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-25 Sarath Chandar , Sungjin Ahn , Hugo Larochelle , Pascal Vincent , Gerald Tesauro , Yoshua Bengio

Mathematical reasoning is one of the most impressive achievements of human intellect but remains a formidable challenge for artificial intelligence systems. In this work we explore whether modern deep learning architectures can learn to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Samuel Cognolato , Alberto Testolin

Meta-learning aims to develop algorithms that can learn from other learning algorithms to adapt to new and changing environments. This requires a model of how other learning algorithms operate and perform in different contexts, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yuwei Sun

Modern deep-learning training is not memoryless. Updates depend on optimizer moments and averaging, data-order policies (random reshuffling vs with-replacement, staged augmentations and replay), the nonconvex path, and auxiliary state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Vasileios Sevetlidis , George Pavlidis

While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation and the vision of the Internet-of-Things fuel the interest in resource efficient approaches. These approaches require a carefully…

Transformers have revolutionized deep learning in numerous fields, including natural language processing, computer vision, and audio processing. Their strength lies in their attention mechanism, which allows for the discovering of complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Uladzislau Yorsh , Martin Holeňa , Ondřej Bojar , David Herel

We propose DEEPMEMORY, a novel deep architecture for sequence-to-sequence learning, which performs the task through a series of nonlinear transformations from the representation of the input sequence (e.g., a Chinese sentence) to the final…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Fandong Meng , Zhengdong Lu , Zhaopeng Tu , Hang Li , Qun Liu

Deep learning is a subset of a broader family of machine learning methods based on learning data representations. These models are inspired by human biological nervous systems, even if there are various differences pertaining to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Adriano Baldeschi , Raffaella Margutti , Adam Miller

A model of associative memory is studied, which stores and reliably retrieves many more patterns than the number of neurons in the network. We propose a simple duality between this dense associative memory and neural networks commonly used…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Dmitry Krotov , John J Hopfield

The Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been originally designed to function like a biological neural network, but does an ANN really work in the same way as a biological neural network? As we know, the human brain holds information in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Usman Ahmad , Hong Song , Awais Bilal , Shahid Mahmood , Asad Ullah , Uzair Saeed

One of the main problems encountered so far with recurrent neural networks is that they struggle to retain long-time information dependencies in their recurrent connections. Neural Turing Machines (NTMs) attempt to mitigate this issue by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jacopo Castellini

Inspired by key neuroscience principles, deep learning has driven exponential breakthroughs in developing functional models of perception and other cognitive processes. A key to this success has been the implementation of crucial features…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 Guillaume Etter

The online learning of deep neural networks is an interesting problem of machine learning because, for example, major IT companies want to manage the information of the massive data uploaded on the web daily, and this technology can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Sang-Woo Lee , Min-Oh Heo , Jiwon Kim , Jeonghee Kim , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Despite recent advances, memory-augmented deep neural networks are still limited when it comes to life-long and one-shot learning, especially in remembering rare events. We present a large-scale life-long memory module for use in deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Łukasz Kaiser , Ofir Nachum , Aurko Roy , Samy Bengio

The success of deep learning algorithms generally depends on large-scale data, while humans appear to have inherent ability of knowledge transfer, by recognizing and applying relevant knowledge from previous learning experiences when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Junguang Jiang , Yang Shu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

The task of a neural associative memory is to retrieve a set of previously memorized patterns from their noisy versions using a network of neurons. An ideal network should have the ability to 1) learn a set of patterns as they arrive, 2)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Amin Karbasi , Amir Hesam Salavati , Amin Shokrollahi

Replay in neural networks involves training on sequential data with memorized samples, which counteracts forgetting of previous behavior caused by non-stationarity. We present a method where these auxiliary samples are generated on the fly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xu Ji , Joao Henriques , Tinne Tuytelaars , Andrea Vedaldi