The following times are reported in Singapore local time (SGT) on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Time Event Speaker(s)
09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks
Dmitry Krotov
09:10-09:40 Invited Talk
AM Overview & Role in ML
Parikshit Ram
09:40-10:10 Invited Talk
AM in Computer Science
Elvis Dohmatob
10:30-10:45 Oral 1
Oscillator AMs facilitate high-capacity, compositional inference
C. Kymn C. Bybee Z. Yun D. Kleyko B. Olshausen
10:45-11:00 Oral 2
Investigating Hopfield networks on graphs: learning invariance and storing orbits
M. Murray C. Hillar
11:00-11:15 Oral 3
How Linearly Associative are Memories in Large Language Models?
A. Gupta N. Sindhu G. Anumanchipalli
11:15-11:30 Oral 4
Can memory networks play a role in task-specific modulation of neural circuits?
S. Agrawal K. Vishwas Kher M. V V. Balasubramanian
11:30-11:45 Oral 5
MemLLM: Finetuning LLMs to Use Explicit Read-Write Memory
A. Modarressi A. Köksal A. Imani M. Fayyaz H. Schuetze
11:40-13:30 Lunch & Poster Session
13:30-14:00 Invited Talk
AM and Transformers
Léon Bottou
14:00-14:15 Oral 6
Memorization to Generalization: Emergence of Diffusion Models from Associative Memory Networks
B. Pham G. Raya M. Negri M. Zaki L. Ambrogioni D. Krotov
14:15-14:30 Oral 7
In-context denoising with one-layer transformers: connections between attention and associative memory retrieval
M. Smart A. Bietti A. Sengupta
14:30-15:00 Invited Talk
AM in Statistical Physics
Adriano Barra
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:30-16:30 Poster Session
16:30-18:00 Panel Discussion
Associative Memory and LLMs
M. Burtsev Z. He E. Ponti M. Toneva B. Hoover
18:00 Workshop Adjourns
  • Schedule
  • 09:00-09:10
    Dmitry Krotov
    Opening Remarks
  • 09:10-09:40
    Parikshit Ram
    Invited Talk
    AM Overview & Role in ML
  • 09:40-10:10
    Elvis Dohmatob
    Invited Talk
    AM in Computer Science
  • 10:30-10:45
    C. Kymn, C. Bybee, Z. Yun, D. Kleyko, B. Olshausen
    Oral 1
    Oscillator AMs facilitate high-capacity, compositional inference
  • 10:45-11:00
    M. Murray, C. Hillar
    Oral 2
    Investigating Hopfield networks on graphs: learning invariance and storing orbits
  • 11:00-11:15
    A. Gupta, N. Sindhu, G. Anumanchipalli
    Oral 3
    How Linearly Associative are Memories in Large Language Models?
  • 11:15-11:30
    S. Agrawal, K. Vishwas Kher, M. V, V. Balasubramanian
    Oral 4
    Can memory networks play a role in task-specific modulation of neural circuits?
  • 11:30-11:45
    A. Modarressi, A. Köksal, A. Imani, M. Fayyaz, H. Schuetze
    Oral 5
    MemLLM: Finetuning LLMs to Use Explicit Read-Write Memory
  • 11:40-13:30
    Lunch & Poster Session
  • 13:30-14:00
    Léon Bottou
    Invited Talk
    AM and Transformers
  • 14:00-14:15
    B. Pham, G. Raya, M. Negri, M. Zaki, L. Ambrogioni, D. Krotov
    Oral 6
    Memorization to Generalization: Emergence of Diffusion Models from Associative Memory Networks
  • 14:15-14:30
    M. Smart, A. Bietti, A. Sengupta
    Oral 7
    In-context denoising with one-layer transformers: connections between attention and associative memory retrieval
  • 14:30-15:00
    Adriano Barra
    Invited Talk
    AM in Statistical Physics
  • 15:00-15:30
    Coffee Break & Poster Session
  • 15:30-16:30
    Poster Session
  • 16:30-18:00
    M. Burtsev, Z. He, E. Ponti, M. Toneva, B. Hoover
    Panel Discussion
    Associative Memory and LLMs
  • 18:00
    Workshop Adjourns