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New Frontiers in Associative Memories - Workshop at ICLR 2026

NFAM 2026

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Feb 15, 2026, 11:59 UTC
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Accepted papers (42)

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  1. A Dynamical Theory of Sequential Retrieval in Input-Driven Hopfield Networks

    Simone Betteti, Sandro Zampieri, Giacomo Baggio · PDF
  2. Adaptive Associative Memory with Differentiable Content-Addressable Memories for Online Learning

    Sara Ameli, Ming-Jay Yang, Rishabh Mallik · PDF
  3. Algorithmic Analysis of Dense Associative Memory: Finite-Size Guarantees and Adversarial Robustness

    Madhava Gaikwad · PDF
  4. ASSOCIATIVE RETRIEVAL AS TEST-TIME OPTIMIZATION IN TRANSFORMER ATTENTION

    Mahule Roy, Subhas Roy · PDF
  5. Boltzmann Routing for Energy-Compatible Mixture of Experts

    Bharat Runwal, Bishwajit Saha, Benjamin Hoover, Mauro Martino, Nima Dehmamy · PDF
  6. Can Local Energy Geometry Predict Per-Pattern Retrieval Reliability in Dense Associative Memories?

    Tatiana Petrova · PDF
  7. Continuous-Time Heteroassociative Memory at Biological Timescales

    Marc Gong Bacvanski, Liu Ziyin, Tomaso Poggio · PDF
  8. Deep Neural Networks as Finite-Step Hopfield Dynamics

    Wooyul Jung, Hochan Bang, HEE BIN YOO, Byoung-Tak Zhang · PDF
  9. Dense Associative Memories with Analog Circuits

    Marc Gong Bacvanski, Xincheng You, Dmitry Krotov · PDF
  10. Dense Associative Memory for Gaussian Distributions

    Chandan Tankala, Krishna Balasubramanian · PDF
  11. Dyadic Learning in Asymmetric ConvNets

    Timothy Nest, Rasmus Høier · PDF
  12. Dynamics of modern Hopfield networks

    Sofiya Bogakovskaya, Vladimir Fanaskov, Ivan Oseledets · PDF
  13. Energy Landscapes of Truthfulness in LLM Attention

    Sohum Mehta, Shiv Narayan Rai · PDF
  14. Energy Minimization for Training Dense Associative Memory

    Bao Pham, Benjamin Hoover, Dmitry Krotov, Parikshit Ram · PDF
  15. EnergyMap: Unraveling the Data Manifold with Energy-based Dimensionality Reduction

    Alec Helbling, Parikshit Ram, Duen Horng Chau, Benjamin Hoover · PDF
  16. Extending LLM Context via Associative Recurrent Memory

    Gleb Kuzmin, Ivan Rodkin, Aydar Bulatov, Yuri Kuratov, Timothy Baldwin, Mikhail Burtsev, Artem Shelmanov · PDF
  17. Generative Associative Memory via Equilibrium Matching

    Adrian Rodriguez, Benjamin Hoover, Yunhui Guo, Yilun Du · PDF
  18. GradMem: Learning to Write Context into Memory with Test-Time Gradient Descent

    Yuri Kuratov, Matvey Kairov, Aydar Bulatov, Ivan Rodkin, Mikhail Burtsev · PDF
  19. Graph Hopfield Networks: Energy-Based Node Classification with Associative Memory

    Alex Wa, Abinav Rao, Rishi Athavale · PDF
  20. Interdomain Attention: Beyond Token-Level Key-Value Memory

    Naoki Kiyohara, Harrison Bo Hua Zhu, Zhuo Sun, Wenlong Chen, Samir Bhatt, Yingzhen Li · PDF
  21. Intrinsic Dense Associative Memory on Riemannian Manifolds

    Zhaoyang Shi, Krishna Balasubramanian · PDF
  22. Language Diffusion Models are Associative Memories

    Bao Pham, Mohammed J Zaki, Luca Ambrogioni, Dmitry Krotov, Matteo Negri · PDF
  23. Learning to learn dynamical associations with reward-gated local plasticity

    Dimitra Maoutsa · PDF
  24. Mixture of Chapters: Scaling Learnt Memory in Transformers

    Tasmay Pankaj Tibrewal, Pritish Saha, Ankit Meda, Kunal Singh, Pradeep Moturi · PDF
  25. On low-dimensional representations and associative memory energy functions

    David Lipshutz
  26. Optimizing Remasking Schedules for Reasoning in Discrete Diffusion Models

    Radostin Cholakov, Zeyneb N. Kaya, Nicole H. Ma · PDF
  27. Parallel Manifold Steering: Efficient Adaptation of Large Associative Memories via Residual Energy Shaping

    KANISHK AWADHIYA · PDF
  28. Plan-Aware Automated Context Engineering

    Kamer Ali Yuksel, Hassan Sawaf · PDF
  29. Power-law feature statistics explain test reconstruction gaps in Associative Memories

    Sergio E.G. Manfrin, Francesco D'Amico, Marco Gherardi, Aurélien Decelle, Beatriz Seoane, Matteo Negri · PDF
  30. Reasoning as Attractor Dynamics: Latent Memory Retrieval via Gibbs-Weighted Energy Minimization

    KANISHK AWADHIYA · PDF
  31. Rethinking Machine Unlearning: Models Designed to Forget via Key Deletion

    Sonia Laguna, Jorge da Silva Gonçalves, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Alain Ryser, Irene Cannistraci, Julia E Vogt · PDF
  32. Sharp storage capacity of a simplified model of linear associative memory

    Alessio Giorlandino, Sebastian Goldt, Antoine Maillard · PDF
  33. Sinkhorn based Associative Memory retrieval using Spherical Hellinger Kantorovich dynamics

    Aratrika Mustafi, Soumya Mukherjee · PDF
  34. Sparse Associative Memories Through the Lens of Compact Kernel Regression

    Saul Santos, Nuno Gonçalves, Daniel C McNamee, Marcos Vinicius Treviso, Andre Martins · PDF
  35. TACE: Token-Aware Chunked Encoding

    Parkirat Sandhu, Henry Ndubuaku, Karen Mosoyan, Satyajit Kumar, Justin Lee, Noah Cylich, Jakub Mroz · PDF
  36. The Key to State Reduction in Linear Attention: A Rank-based Perspective

    Philipp Nazari, T. Konstantin Rusch · PDF
  37. Thermal Robustness of Retrieval in Dense Associative Memories: LSE vs LSR Kernels

    Tatiana Petrova · PDF
  38. Thermodynamic Binding: Freezing Chimeric States in Multi-Modal Associative Memories

    Elena Agliari, Adriano Barra, Andrea Ladiana, Andrea Lepre · PDF
  39. To Keep or to Forget: Toward Context-Sensitive Memory in Large Language Models

    Noor Ul Zain, Ahsan Adeel · PDF
  40. Towards Context-Based Retrieval in Associative Memories

    Moulik Choraria, Argyrios Gerogiannis, Vidhata Jayaraman, Ankur Mani, Lav R. Varshney · PDF
  41. Training a Convergent Energy Transformer with Equilibrium Propagation

    Rasmus Høier, Tugdual Kerjan, Benjamin Scellier · PDF
  42. When Memories Collide: Associative Interference Dynamics in Lifelong Agent Memory

    Zhaoxiang Feng, Mingyang Yao, David Scott Lewis · PDF