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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Richard Csaky

AI agents are increasingly used in long, multi-turn workflows in both research and enterprise settings. As interactions grow, agent behavior often degrades due to loss of constraint focus, error accumulation, and memory-induced drift. This…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-05 Fouad Bousetouane

Temporal gates play a significant role in modern recurrent-based neural encoders, enabling fine-grained control over recursive compositional operations over time. In recurrent models such as the long short-term memory (LSTM), temporal gates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Yi Tay , Luu Anh Tuan , Siu Cheung Hui

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is one of the most widely used recurrent structures in sequence modeling. It aims to use gates to control information flow (e.g., whether to skip some information or not) in the recurrent computations, although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Zhuohan Li , Di He , Fei Tian , Wei Chen , Tao Qin , Liwei Wang , Tie-Yan Liu

In continual learning, the learner faces a stream of data whose distribution changes over time. Modern neural networks are known to suffer under this setting, as they quickly forget previously acquired knowledge. To address such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Arslan Chaudhry , Albert Gordo , Puneet K. Dokania , Philip Torr , David Lopez-Paz

Sample-efficient online reinforcement learning often uses replay buffers to store experience for reuse when updating the value function. However, uniform replay is inefficient, since certain classes of transitions can be more relevant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Renhao Wang , Kevin Frans , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Alexei A. Efros

In this work we derive the performance achievable by a network of distributed agents that solve, adaptively and in the presence of communication constraints, a regression problem. Agents employ the recently proposed ACTC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Marco Carpentiero , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

This paper motivates the use of random-bridges -- stochastic processes conditioned to take target distributions at fixed timepoints -- in the realm of generative modelling. Herein, random-bridges can act as stochastic transports between two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Stefano Goria , Levent A. Mengütürk , Murat C. Mengütürk , Berkan Sesen

We provide a general framework for learning diffusion bridges that transport prior to target distributions. It includes existing diffusion models for generative modeling, but also underdamped versions with degenerate diffusion matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Gerhard Neumann

The quadratic complexity of self-attention mechanism presents a significant impediment to applying Transformer models to long sequences. This work explores computational principles derived from astrocytes-glial cells critical for biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Md Zesun Ahmed Mia , Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

Continual learning is the process of training machine learning models on a sequence of tasks where data distributions change over time. A well-known obstacle in this setting is catastrophic forgetting, a phenomenon in which a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Andrii Krutsylo

Many efforts have been devoted to training generative latent variable models with autoregressive decoders, such as recurrent neural networks (RNN). Stochastic recurrent models have been successful in capturing the variability observed in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-17 Anirudh Goyal , Alessandro Sordoni , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Nan Rosemary Ke , Yoshua Bengio

Transformer attention scales quadratically with sequence length O(n^2), limiting long-context use. We propose Adaptive Retention, a probabilistic, layer-wise token selection mechanism that learns which representations to keep under a strict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 S M Rafiuddin , Muntaha Nujat Khan

Wearable sensors in Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems increasingly support applications such as remote health monitoring, elderly care, and smart home automation, all of which rely on robust human activity recognition (HAR). Continual…

As terminal agents scale to long-horizon, multi-turn workflows, a key bottleneck is not merely limited context length, but the accumulation of noisy terminal observations in the interaction history. Retaining raw observations preserves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jincheng Ren , Siwei Wu , Yizhi Li , Kang Zhu , Shu Xu , Boyu Feng , Ruibin Yuan , Wei Zhang , Riza Batista-Navarro , Jian Yang , Chenghua Lin

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), which are a powerful scheme for modeling temporal and sequential data need to capture long-term dependencies on datasets and represent them in hidden layers with a powerful model to capture more information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Ruli Manurung , Mirna Adriani , Satoshi Nakamura

Event-based video reconstruction has garnered increasing attention due to its advantages, such as high dynamic range and rapid motion capture capabilities. However, current methods often prioritize the extraction of temporal information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lin Zhu , Yunlong Zheng , Yijun Zhang , Xiao Wang , Lizhi Wang , Hua Huang

Transformers face a quadratic bottleneck in attention when scaling to long contexts. Recent approaches introduce recurrent memory to extend context beyond the current window, yet these often face a fundamental trade-off between theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yunchong Song , Jushi Kai , Liming Lu , Kaixi Qiu , Zhouhan Lin

Hybrid architectures combining state-space models with attention have achieved strong efficiency-quality tradeoffs, yet existing approaches either apply attention uniformly or learn static sparse patterns. This misses a key opportunity:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

Episodic control, inspired by the role of episodic memory in the human brain, has been shown to improve the sample inefficiency of model-free reinforcement learning by reusing high-return past experiences. However, the memory growth of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Mukul Chodhary , Kevin Octavian , SooJean Han