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We augment recurrent neural networks with an external memory mechanism that builds upon recent progress in metalearning. We conceptualize this memory as a rapidly adaptable function that we parameterize as a deep neural network. Reading…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Alessandro Sordoni , Tong Wang , Adam Trischler

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

Classical models of memory in psychology and neuroscience rely on similarity-based retrieval of stored patterns, where similarity is a function of retrieval cues and the stored patterns. While parsimonious, these models do not allow…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Samuel J. Gershman , Ila Fiete , Kazuki Irie

This paper introduces a structured memory which can be easily integrated into a neural network. The memory is very large by design and significantly increases the capacity of the architecture, by up to a billion parameters with a negligible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Guillaume Lample , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Ludovic Denoyer , Hervé Jégou

It has been shown that semi-parametric methods, which combine standard neural networks with non-parametric components such as external memory modules and data retrieval, are particularly helpful in data scarcity and out-of-distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Zihan Qiu , Zhen Liu , Shuicheng Yan , Shanghang Zhang , Jie Fu

Memory is fundamental to intelligence, enabling learning, reasoning, and adaptability across biological and artificial systems. While Transformer architectures excel at sequence modeling, they face critical limitations in long-range context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Parsa Omidi , Xingshuai Huang , Axel Laborieux , Bahareh Nikpour , Tianyu Shi , Armaghan Eshaghi

In neuroscience, classical Hopfield networks are the standard biologically plausible model of long-term memory, relying on Hebbian plasticity for storage and attractor dynamics for recall. In contrast, memory-augmented neural networks in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-28 Danil Tyulmankov , Ching Fang , Annapurna Vadaparty , Guangyu Robert Yang

Traditional neural networks require enormous amounts of data to build their complex mappings during a slow training procedure that hinders their abilities for relearning and adapting to new data. Memory-augmented neural networks enhance…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Geethan Karunaratne , Manuel Schmuck , Manuel Le Gallo , Giovanni Cherubini , Luca Benini , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Memory Networks have emerged as effective models to incorporate Knowledge Bases (KB) into neural networks. By storing KB embeddings into a memory component, these models can learn meaningful representations that are grounded to external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Omar U. Florez , Erik Mueller

In this paper, we propose a novel control architecture, inspired from neuroscience, for adaptive control of continuous-time systems. The proposed architecture, in the setting of standard Neural Network (NN) based adaptive control, augments…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Deepan Muthirayan , Pramod P. Khargonekar

Memory-augmented neural networks consisting of a neural controller and an external memory have shown potentials in long-term sequential learning. Current RAM-like memory models maintain memory accessing every timesteps, thus they do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Hung Le , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

This paper examines the memory capacity of generalized neural networks. Hopfield networks trained with a variety of learning techniques are investigated for their capacity both for binary and non-binary alphabets. It is shown that the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Matt Stowe , Subhash Kak

Neural networks powered with external memory simulate computer behaviors. These models, which use the memory to store data for a neural controller, can learn algorithms and other complex tasks. In this paper, we introduce a new memory to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Hung Le , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

Memory layers use a trainable key-value lookup mechanism to add extra parameters to a model without increasing FLOPs. Conceptually, sparsely activated memory layers complement compute-heavy dense feed-forward layers, providing dedicated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Vincent-Pierre Berges , Barlas Oğuz , Daniel Haziza , Wen-tau Yih , Luke Zettlemoyer , Gargi Ghosh

Classifying the training data correctly without over-fitting is one of the goals in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a generalization-memorization mechanism, including a generalization-memorization decision and a memory modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zhen Wang , Yuan-Hai Shao

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

In this paper, we propose hybrid real- and complex-valued neural networks for speech enhancement. Real- or complex-valued models are either inefficient or present high complexity. We devise a straightforward design method for extending a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Alex Young , Ronald M. Aarts

The impressive generalization performance of modern neural networks is attributed in part to their ability to implicitly memorize complex training patterns. Inspired by this, we explore a novel mechanism to improve model generalization via…

Recent research has shown the existence of significant redundancy in large Transformer models. One can prune the redundant parameters without significantly sacrificing the generalization performance. However, we question whether the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Chen Liang , Haoming Jiang , Simiao Zuo , Pengcheng He , Xiaodong Liu , Jianfeng Gao , Weizhu Chen , Tuo Zhao

We introduce a novel approach to endowing neural networks with emergent, long-term, large-scale memory. Distinct from strategies that connect neural networks to external memory banks via intricately crafted controllers and hand-designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Tri Huynh , Michael Maire , Matthew R. Walter
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