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Transformer models gain popularity because of their superior inference accuracy and inference throughput. However, the transformer is computation-intensive, causing a long inference time. The existing works on transformer inference…

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Memory systems are fundamental to AI agents, yet existing work often lacks adaptability to diverse tasks and overlooks the constructive and task-oriented role of AI agent memory. Drawing from Piaget's theory of cognitive development, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shian Jia , Ziyang Huang , Xinbo Wang , Haofei Zhang , Mingli Song

Designing efficient and effective architectural backbones has been in the core of research efforts to enhance the capability of foundation models. Inspired by the human cognitive phenomenon of attentional bias-the natural tendency to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Ali Behrouz , Meisam Razaviyayn , Peilin Zhong , Vahab Mirrokni

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

This paper explores Memory-Augmented Neural Networks (MANNs), delving into how they blend human-like memory processes into AI. It covers different memory types, like sensory, short-term, and long-term memory, linking psychological theories…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Savya Khosla , Zhen Zhu , Yifei He

Memory serves as the pivotal nexus bridging past and future, providing both humans and AI systems with invaluable concepts and experience to navigate complex tasks. Recent research on autonomous agents has increasingly focused on designing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiafeng Liang , Hao Li , Chang Li , Jiaqi Zhou , Shixin Jiang , Zekun Wang , Changkai Ji , Zhihao Zhu , Runxuan Liu , Tao Ren , Jinlan Fu , See-Kiong Ng , Xia Liang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

Large language models (LLMs) face inherent limitations in memory, including restricted context windows, long-term knowledge forgetting, redundant information accumulation, and hallucination generation. These issues severely constrain…

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World models enable agents to plan within imagined environments by predicting future states conditioned on past observations and actions. However, their ability to plan over long horizons is limited by the effective memory span of the…

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Although neural machine translation (NMT) models perform well in the general domain, it remains rather challenging to control their generation behavior to satisfy the requirement of different users. Given the expensive training cost and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yuzhuang Xu , Shuo Wang , Peng Li , Xuebo Liu , Xiaolong Wang , Weidong Liu , Yang Liu

Contemporary artificial intelligence systems achieve strong performance through large-scale parameterization, retrieval augmentation, and training on extensive static corpora. Despite these advances, they continue to face limitations in…

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The rapid advancement of generative models has empowered modern AI systems to comprehend and produce highly sophisticated content, even achieving human-level performance in specific domains. However, these models are fundamentally…

Recent research has explored the memorization capacity of multi-head attention, but these findings are constrained by unrealistic limitations on the context size. We present a novel proof for language-based Transformers that extends the…

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While Large Language Models and their underlying Transformer architecture are remarkably efficient, they do not reflect how our brain processes and learns a diversity of cognitive tasks such as language, nor how it leverages working memory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yannis Bendi-Ouis , Xavier Hinaut

Large Language Models face significant challenges in maintaining coherent interactions over extended dialogues due to their limited contextual memory. This limitation often leads to fragmented exchanges and reduced relevance in responses,…

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Effectively learning from sequential data is a longstanding goal of Artificial Intelligence, especially in the case of long sequences. From the dawn of Machine Learning, several researchers have pursued algorithms and architectures capable…

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Continual learning empowers models to learn from a continuous stream of data while preserving previously acquired knowledge, effectively addressing the challenge of catastrophic forgetting. In this study, we propose a new approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Mohamed Abbas Hedjazi , Oussama Hadjerci , Adel Hafiane

The Transformer architecture has become a cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence, but its core self-attention mechanism suffers from a complexity bottleneck that scales quadratically with sequence length, severely limiting its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhongpan Tang

Despite the empirical success of prompt tuning in adapting pretrained language models to new tasks, theoretical analyses of its capabilities remain limited. Existing theoretical work primarily addresses universal approximation properties,…

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One of the main challenges of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is to extract features from persistent diagrams directly usable by machine learning algorithms. Indeed, persistence diagrams are intrinsically (multi-)sets of points in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Raphael Reinauer , Matteo Caorsi , Nicolas Berkouk

Transformer has significantly propelled the development of artificial intelligence, and certainly the development of agents as well. We categorize attention structures of Transformer into two types based on the source of the input…

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