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Humans learn adaptively and efficiently throughout their lives. However, incrementally learning tasks causes artificial neural networks to overwrite relevant information learned about older tasks, resulting in 'Catastrophic Forgetting'.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Gobinda Saha , Isha Garg , Aayush Ankit , Kaushik Roy

In the study of human learning, there is broad evidence that our ability to retain information improves with repeated exposure and decays with delay since last exposure. This plays a crucial role in the design of educational software,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Siddharth Reddy , Igor Labutov , Siddhartha Banerjee , Thorsten Joachims

Federated learning (FL) is usually performed on resource-constrained edge devices, e.g., with limited memory for the computation. If the required memory to train a model exceeds this limit, the device will be excluded from the training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Kilian Pfeiffer , Ramin Khalili , Jörg Henkel

Memory-augmented large language models extend reasoning beyond a fixed context window by maintaining long-term memory across interactions. However, existing memory systems often collapse stable user facts, episodic events, and behavioral…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hyeonjeong Ha , Jeonghwan Kim , Cheng Qian , Jiayu Liu , William M. Campbell , Yue Wu , Yuji Zhang , Kathleen McKeown , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Heng Ji

Using numerical simulations it is shown that a jammed, random pack of soft frictional grains can store an arbitrary waveform that is applied as a small time-dependent shear while the system is slowly compressed. When the system is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-12 D. Candela

We study the brittle fragmentation of spheres by using a three-dimensional Discrete Element Model. Large scale computer simulations are performed with a model that consists of agglomerates of many particles, interconnected by beam-truss…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. A. Carmona , F. K. Wittel , F. Kun , H. J. Herrmann

Memory, a fundamental component of human cognition, exhibits adaptive yet fallible characteristics as illustrated by Schacter's memory "sins".These cognitive phenomena have been studied extensively in psychology and neuroscience, but the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-23 Zhaoyang Cao , Lael Schooler , Reza Zafarani

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a crucial defense mechanism employed by modern operating systems to mitigate exploitation by randomizing processes' memory layouts. However, the stark reality is that real-world implementations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Lorenzo Binosi , Gregorio Barzasi , Michele Carminati , Stefano Zanero , Mario Polino

Medical image segmentation, the task of partitioning an image into meaningful parts, is an important step toward automating medical image analysis and is at the crux of a variety of medical imaging applications, such as computer aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Masoud S. Nosrati , Ghassan Hamarneh

We use the Reversibility Error Method and the Fidelity to analyze the global effects of a small perturbation in a non-integrable system. Both methods have already been proposed and used in the literature but the aim of this paper is to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-22 Federico Panichi , Luca Ciotti , Giorgio Turchetti

Quantum bits have technological imperfections. Additionally, the capacity of a component that can be implemented feasibly is limited. Therefore, distributed quantum computation is required to scale up quantum computers. This dissertation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Shota Nagayama

Due to the significant increase in the size of spatial data, it is essential to use distributed parallel processing systems to efficiently analyze spatial data. In this paper, we first study learned spatial data partitioning, which…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Keizo Hori , Yuya Sasaki , Daichi Amagata , Yuki Murosaki , Makoto Onizuka

In this addendum of our paper [D. Burgarth and V. Giovannetti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100501 (2007)] we prove that during the transformation that allows one to enforce control by relaxation on a quantum system, the ancillary memory can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Daniel Burgarth , Vittorio Giovannetti

Program tracing, or mentally simulating a program on concrete inputs, is an important part of general program comprehension. Programs involve many kinds of virtual state that must be held in memory, such as variable/value pairs and a call…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Will Crichton , Maneesh Agrawala , Pat Hanrahan

Multiprocess systems, including grid systems, multiprocessors and multicore computers, incorporate a variety of specialized hardware and software mechanisms, which speed computation, but result in complex memory behavior. As a consequence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Steven Cheng , Lisa Higham , Jalal Kawash

Human learning is a complex process in which future behavior is altered via the reorganization of brain activity and connectivity. It remains unknown whether activity and connectivity differentially reorganize during learning, and, if so,…

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

We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of memory effects in vibration-induced compaction of granular materials. In particular, the response of the system to an abrupt change in shaking intensity is measured. At short times…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Christophe Josserand , Alexei Tkachenko , Daniel M. Mueth , Heinrich M. Jaeger

We define a spatially-dependent fragmentation process, which involves rectangles breaking up into progressively smaller pieces at rates that depend on their shape. Long, thin rectangles are more likely to break quickly, and are also more…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Alice Callegaro , Matthew I. Roberts

The performance of OCR has improved with the evolution of AI technology. As OCR continues to broaden its range of applications, the increased likelihood of interference introduced by various usage environments can prevent it from achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kenji Iwata , Eiki Ishidera , Toshifumi Yamaai , Yutaka Satoh , Hiroshi Tanaka , Katsuhiko Takahashi , Akio Furuhata , Yoshihisa Tanabe , Hiroshi Matsumura