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Compute scaling for language model (LM) pretraining has outpaced the growth of human-written texts, leading to concerns that data will become the bottleneck to LM scaling. To continue scaling pretraining in this data-constrained regime, we…

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Transformers have emerged as the backbone of large language models (LLMs). However, generation remains inefficient due to the need to store in memory a cache of key-value representations for past tokens, whose size scales linearly with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Piotr Nawrot , Adrian Łańcucki , Marcin Chochowski , David Tarjan , Edoardo M. Ponti

While humans naturally learn and adapt from past experiences, large language models (LLMs) and their agentic counterparts struggle to retain reasoning from previous tasks and apply them in future contexts. To address this limitation, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Peter Baile Chen , Yi Zhang , Dan Roth , Samuel Madden , Jacob Andreas , Michael Cafarella

Large Language Models (LLMs) face fundamental limitations in context management despite recent advances extending context windows to millions of tokens. We propose Cognitive Workspace, a novel paradigm that transcends traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tao An

Agent memory shapes how Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents, akin to the human brain, progressively refine themselves through environment interactions. Existing paradigms remain constrained: parametric memory forcibly adjusts model…

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Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in long running workflows, where they must preserve user and task state across many turns. Many existing agent memory systems behave like external databases with ad hoc read/write…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Pearl Mody , Mihir Panchal , Rishit Kar , Kiran Bhowmick , Ruhina Karani

AI applications increasingly depend on long-context inference, where LLMs consume substantial context to support stronger reasoning. Common examples include retrieval-augmented generation, agent memory layers, and multi-agent orchestration.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yinsicheng Jiang , Yeqi Huang , Liang Cheng , Cheng Deng , Xuan Sun , Luo Mai

As Large Language Models (LLMs) scale to support context windows exceeding one million tokens, the linear growth of Key-Value (KV) cache imposes severe memory capacity and bandwidth bottlenecks, constraining the efficiency of long-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zhirui Chen , Peiyang Liu , Ling Shao

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) map the black-box visual representations extracted by deep neural networks onto a set of interpretable concepts and use the concepts to make predictions, enhancing the transparency of the decision-making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Chenming Shang , Shiji Zhou , Hengyuan Zhang , Xinzhe Ni , Yujiu Yang , Yuwang Wang

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly exhibit behaviors suggesting awareness of their evaluation context, often adapting their reasoning strategies in benchmark settings. Prior work has shown that such evaluation awareness can distort…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanshi Li , Xueru Bai , Shuman Liu , Haibo Zhang , Anxiang Zeng

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to handle long input sequences due to high memory and runtime costs. Memory-augmented models have emerged as a promising solution to this problem, but current methods are hindered by limited memory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Zexue He , Leonid Karlinsky , Donghyun Kim , Julian McAuley , Dmitry Krotov , Rogerio Feris

Large language models (LLMs) often incorporate multiple text chunks in their inputs to provide the necessary contexts. To speed up the prefill of the long LLM inputs, one can pre-compute the KV cache of a text and re-use the KV cache when…

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It is widely acknowledged that the performance of Transformer models is logarithmically related to their number of parameters and computational complexity. While approaches like Mixture of Experts (MoE) decouple parameter count from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zihao Huang , Qiyang Min , Hongzhi Huang , Defa Zhu , Yutao Zeng , Ran Guo , Xun Zhou

Exploration capacity shapes both inference-time performance and reinforcement learning (RL) training for large (vision-) language models, as stochastic sampling often yields redundant reasoning paths with little high-level diversity. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Rujiao Long , Yang Li , Xingyao Zhang , Weixun Wang , Tianqianjin Lin , Xi Zhao , Yuchi Xu , Wenbo Su , Junchi Yan , Bo Zheng

In contrast to RNNs, which compress their history into a single hidden state, Transformers can attend to all past tokens directly. However, standard Transformers rely solely on the hidden state from the previous layer to represent the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Gleb Gerasimov , Yaroslav Aksenov , Nikita Balagansky , Viacheslav Sinii , Daniil Gavrilov

Long-term conversational memory requires retrieving evidence scattered across multiple sessions, yet single-pass retrieval fails on temporal and multi-hop questions. Existing iterative methods refine queries via generated content or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yuyang Li , Yime He , Zeyu Zhang , Dong Gong

Large language models (LLMs) are essential in natural language processing but often struggle with inference speed and computational efficiency, limiting real-time deployment. The key-value (KV) cache mechanism reduces computational overhead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Junqi Zhao , Zhijin Fang , Shu Li , Shaohui Yang , Shichao He

Language-image pre-training faces significant challenges due to limited data in specific formats and the constrained capacities of text encoders. While prevailing methods attempt to address these issues through data augmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Anjia Cao , Xing Wei , Zhiheng Ma

Long video understanding is a key challenge that plagues the advancement of \emph{Multimodal Large language Models} (MLLMs). In this paper, we study this problem from the perspective of visual memory mechanism, and proposed a novel and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tao Chen , Kun Zhang , Qiong Wu , Xiao Chen , Chao Chang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

While large language models have achieved remarkable performance in complex tasks, they still need a memory system to utilize historical experience in long-term interactions. Existing memory methods (e.g., A-Mem, Mem0) place excessive…

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