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We provide a comprehensive review of the existing literature on memory-augmented GNNs. We review these works through the lens of psychology and neuroscience, which has several established theories on how multiple memory systems and…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have made extraordinary progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence and have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a large variety of tasks and domains. However, as we venture closer to creating…

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