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Heretofore, neural networks with external memory are restricted to single memory with lossy representations of memory interactions. A rich representation of relationships between memory pieces urges a high-order and segregated relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Hung Le , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

In continual learning, a system learns from non-stationary data streams or batches without catastrophic forgetting. While this problem has been heavily studied in supervised image classification and reinforcement learning, continual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Tyler L. Hayes , Christopher Kanan

The ability to recognize and predict temporal sequences of sensory inputs is vital for survival in natural environments. Based on many known properties of cortical neurons, hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) sequence memory is recently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yuwei Cui , Subutai Ahmad , Jeff Hawkins

Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) are widely used to discover latent structure in data, but their success hinges on selecting an appropriate model design. In practice, model specification is difficult and often requires iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kevin Zhang , Yixin Wang

Cognitive maps provide a powerful framework for understanding spatial and abstract reasoning in biological and artificial agents. While recent computational models link cognitive maps to hippocampal-entorhinal mechanisms, they often rely on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-07 E. A. Dzhivelikian , A. I. Panov

Neural networks have been criticised for their inability to perform continual learning due to catastrophic forgetting and rapid unlearning of a past concept when a new concept is introduced. Catastrophic forgetting can be alleviated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Heinrich van Deventer , Pieter Janse van Rensburg , Anna Bosman

Associative memories in the brain receive and store patterns of activity registered by the sensory neurons, and are able to retrieve them when necessary. Due to their importance in human intelligence, computational models of associative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Tommaso Salvatori , Yuhang Song , Yujian Hong , Simon Frieder , Lei Sha , Zhenghua Xu , Rafal Bogacz , Thomas Lukasiewicz

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

Anticipating future actions based on spatiotemporal observations is essential in video understanding and predictive computer vision. Moreover, a model capable of anticipating the future has important applications, it can benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tsung-Ming Tai , Giuseppe Fiameni , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Simon See , Oswald Lanz

Brain-inspired computing proposes a set of algorithmic principles that hold promise for advancing artificial intelligence. They endow systems with self learning capabilities, efficient energy usage, and high storage capacity. A core concept…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Younes Bouhadjar , Sebastian Siegel , Tom Tetzlaff , Markus Diesmann , Rainer Waser , Dirk J. Wouters

The brain is targeted for processing temporal sequence information. It remains largely unclear how the brain learns to store and retrieve sequence memories. Here, we study how recurrent networks of binary neurons learn sequence attractors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yao Lu , Si Wu

Humans excel at continually acquiring, consolidating, and retaining information from an ever-changing environment, whereas artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. There are considerable differences in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

We propose a novel method called Long Expressive Memory (LEM) for learning long-term sequential dependencies. LEM is gradient-based, it can efficiently process sequential tasks with very long-term dependencies, and it is sufficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 T. Konstantin Rusch , Siddhartha Mishra , N. Benjamin Erichson , Michael W. Mahoney

Continual learning requires models to adapt to new data while preserving previously acquired knowledge. At its core, this challenge can be viewed as principled one-step adaptation: incorporating new information with minimal interference to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jiaqi Sun , Boyang Sun , Rasmy M. H. , Xiangchen Song , Kun Zhang

Linear sequence modeling methods, such as linear attention, state space modeling, and linear RNNs, offer significant efficiency improvements by reducing the complexity of training and inference. However, these methods typically compress the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jusen Du , Weigao Sun , Disen Lan , Jiaxi Hu , Yu Cheng

Associative memory has been a prominent candidate for the computation performed by the massively recurrent neocortical networks. Attractor networks implementing associative memory have offered mechanistic explanation for many cognitive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Naresh Balaji Ravichandran , Anders Lansner , Pawel Herman

Matching animal-like flexibility in recognition and the ability to quickly incorporate new information remains difficult. Limits are yet to be adequately addressed in neural models and recognition algorithms. This work proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Tsvi Achler

We introduce PRISM (Predictive Reasoning in Sequential Medicine), a transformer-based architecture designed to model the sequential progression of clinical decision-making processes. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on isolated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Lionel Levine , John Santerre , Alex S. Young , T. Barry Levine , Francis Campion , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Neural dynamical systems with stable attractor structures, such as point attractors and continuous attractors, are hypothesized to underlie meaningful temporal behavior that requires working memory. However, working memory may not support…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-25 Il Memming Park , Ábel Ságodi , Piotr Aleksander Sokół

Humans learn and form memories in stochastic environments. Auto-associative memory systems model these processes by storing patterns and later recovering them from corrupted versions. Here, memories are learned by associating each pattern…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Qin He , Jing Shuang Li