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Deep neural networks have shown superior performance in many regimes to remember familiar patterns with large amounts of data. However, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm is still limited when facing the need to learn new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Jing Shi , Jiaming Xu , Yiqun Yao , Bo Xu

Most researchers regard AI as a static function without memory. This is one of the few articles where AI is seen as a device with memory. When we have memory, we can ask ourselves: "Where am I?", and "What is going on?" When we have no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Dimiter Dobrev

Associative memories are data structures that allow retrieval of stored messages from part of their content. They thus behave similarly to human brain that is capable for instance of retrieving the end of a song given its beginning. Among…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Bartosz Boguslawski , Vincent Gripon , Fabrice Seguin , Frédéric Heitzmann

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

A central problem to understanding intelligence is the concept of generalisation. This allows previously learnt structure to be exploited to solve tasks in novel situations differing in their particularities. We take inspiration from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 James C. R. Whittington , Timothy H. Muller , Shirley Mark , Caswell Barry , Timothy E. J. Behrens

We touch the problem of finding simplified models for the recognition process. We are interested in how the input signal arriving at the brain is entangled (connected) to the memory already stored and the consciousness that existed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanori Ohya

Memory is one of the most essential cognitive functions serving as a repository of world knowledge and episodes of activities. In recent years, large-scale pre-trained language models have shown remarkable memorizing ability. On the…

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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

The entropic associative memory (EAM) is a computational model of natural memory incorporating some of its putative properties of being associative, distributed, declarative, abstractive and constructive. Previous experiments satisfactorily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Noé Hernández , Rafael Morales , Luis A. Pineda

Recent advances in programming languages study and design have established a standard way of grounding computational systems representation in category theory. These formal results led to a better understanding of issues of control and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Jean-Marie Chauvet

Memory is the process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information, allowing humans to retain experiences, knowledge, skills, and facts over time, and serving as the foundation for growth and effective interaction with the world. It…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yaxiong Wu , Sheng Liang , Chen Zhang , Yichao Wang , Yongyue Zhang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yong Liu

A central idea in understanding brains and building artificial intelligence is that structure determines function. Yet, how the brain's complex structure arises from a limited set of genetic instructions remains a key question. The ultra…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-28 Xingyu Liu , Yubin Li , Guozhang Chen

Remembering and forgetting mechanisms are two sides of the same coin in a human learning-memory system. Inspired by human brain memory mechanisms, modern machine learning systems have been working to endow machine with lifelong learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jian Peng , Xian Sun , Min Deng , Chao Tao , Bo Tang , Wenbo Li , Guohua Wu , QingZhu , Yu Liu , Tao Lin , Haifeng Li

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

Modern neural language models that are widely used in various NLP tasks risk memorizing sensitive information from their training data. Understanding this memorization is important in real world applications and also from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Chiyuan Zhang , Daphne Ippolito , Katherine Lee , Matthew Jagielski , Florian Tramèr , Nicholas Carlini

In this paper, we present a neural network system related to about memory and recall that consists of one neuron group (the "cue ball") and a one-layer neural net (the "recall net"). This system realizes the bidirectional memorization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hiroshi Inazawa

The "SP theory of intelligence", with its realisation in the "SP computer model", aims to simplify and integrate observations and concepts across AI-related fields, with information compression as a unifying theme. This paper describes how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-12 J Gerard Wolff

Ever since the last two decades of the past century pioneering studies in the field of statistical physics had focused their efforts on developing models of neural networks that could display memory storage and retrieval. Though many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-16 Enrico Ventura

The prefrontal cortex is known to be involved in many high-level cognitive functions, in particular, working memory. Here, we study to what extent a group of randomly connected units (namely an Echo State Network, ESN) can store and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-19 Anthony Strock , Nicolas Rougier , Xavier Hinaut

Concept learning is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and plays a critical role in mental processes such as categorization, reasoning, memory, and decision-making. Researchers across various disciplines have shown consistent interest…

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