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Most current AI models have little ability to store and later retrieve a record or representation of what they do. In human cognition, episodic memories play an important role in both recall of the past as well as planning for the future.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Chad DeChant

We consider a living organism as an observer of the evolution of its environment recording sensory information about the state space X of the environment in real time. Sensory information is sampled and then processed on two levels. On the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-03-22 Dan Guralnik

With the increasing ubiquity of safety-critical autonomous systems operating in uncertain environments, there is a need for mathematical methods for formal verification of stochastic models. Towards formally verifying properties of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Adrien Banse , Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Luca Laurenti , Manuel Mazo , Raphaël M. Jungers

Large language model (LLM) agents require long-term user memory for consistent personalization, but limited context windows hinder tracking evolving preferences over long interactions. Existing memory systems mainly rely on static,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Derong Xu , Shuochen Liu , Pengfei Luo , Pengyue Jia , Yingyi Zhang , Yi Wen , Yimin Deng , Wenlin Zhang , Enhong Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Tong Xu

Prompt-injected memory can improve reasoning without updating model weights, but it also creates a control problem: retrieved content helps only when it is applied in the right state. We study this problem in a strict training-free setting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yanzhen Lu , Muchen Jiang , Zhicheng Qian , Xingyu Zhou

Game theory is fundamental to understanding cooperation between agents. Mainly, the Prisoner's Dilemma is a well-known model that has been extensively studied in complex networks. However, although the emergence of cooperation has been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-04 Nastaran Lotfi , Francisco A. Rodrigues

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

Abstracting Gradual Typing (AGT) is an approach to systematically deriving gradual counterparts to static type disciplines. The approach consists of defining the semantics of gradual types by interpreting them as sets of static types, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Ronald Garcia , Éric Tanter

Shared autonomy refers to approaches for enabling an autonomous agent to collaborate with a human with the aim of improving human performance. However, besides improving performance, it may often also be beneficial that the agent…

Frontier AI systems are making transformative impacts across society, but such benefits are not without costs: models trained on web-scale datasets containing personal and private data raise profound concerns about data privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Sunny Duan , Mikail Khona , Abhiram Iyer , Rylan Schaeffer , Ila R Fiete

We assume that recommender systems are more successful, when they are based on a thorough understanding of how people process information. In the current paper we test this assumption in the context of social tagging systems. Cognitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Dominik Kowald , Paul Seitlinger , Christoph Trattner , Tobias Ley

As large language models transition from bounded generative engines to agents with expansive execution privileges, AI going out of control precipitates a fundamental crisis in artificial intelligence security. Existing defense architectures…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Benlong Wu , Weiming Zhang , Kejiang Chen , Han Fang , Nenghai Yu

Episodic memory is a psychology term which refers to the ability to recall specific events from the past. We suggest one advantage of this particular type of memory is the ability to easily assign credit to a specific state when remembered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Kenny J. Young , Richard S. Sutton , Shuo Yang

Backpropagation provides a generalized configuration for overcoming catastrophic forgetting. Optimizers such as SGD and Adam are commonly used for weight updates in continual learning and continual pre-training. However, access to gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Tao Feng , Wei Li , Didi Zhu , Hangjie Yuan , Wendi Zheng , Dan Zhang , Jie Tang

We present a flow-sensitive effect system for reachability types that supports explicit memory management, including Rust-style move semantics, in higher-order impure functional languages. Our system refines the existing reachability…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Haotian Deng , Siyuan He , Songlin Jia , Yuyan Bao , Tiark Rompf

This paper describes a possible way to improve computer security by implementing a program which implements the following three features related to a weak notion of artificial consciousness: (partial) self-monitoring, ability to compute the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Andrew Powell

Driven by our mission of "uplifting the world with memory," this paper explores the design concept of "memory" that is essential for achieving artificial superintelligence (ASI). Rather than proposing novel methods, we focus on several…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Hiroaki Yamanaka , Daisuke Miyashita , Takashi Toi , Asuka Maki , Taiga Ikeda , Jun Deguchi

I find that exactly two stages can be seen directly in sequential free recall distributions. These distributions show that the first three recalls come from the emptying of working memory, recalls 6 and above come from a second stage and…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-19 Eugen Tarnow

Multi-agent language systems can exhibit a failure mode where a shared dominant context progressively absorbs individual semantics, yielding near-uniform behavior across agents. We study this effect under the name Asymptotic Semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Faruk Alpay , Bugra Kilictas

The exploration of whether agents can align with their environment without relying on human-labeled data presents an intriguing research topic. Drawing inspiration from the alignment process observed in intelligent organisms, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Bo Wang , Tianxiang Sun , Hang Yan , Siyin Wang , Qingyuan Cheng , Xipeng Qiu