Neuro-Inspired Learning & Associative Memories

Lecture notes

• Krotov, D., Hoover, B., Ram, P. and Pham, B. (2025) Modern Methods in Associative Memory. paper

Conference

• Hoover, B., Shi, Z., Balasubramanian, K., Krotov, D. and Ram, P. (2025) Dense Associative Memory with Epanechnikov Energy. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. paper

• Hoover, B., Chau, D.H., Strobelt, H., Ram, P. and Krotov, D. (2024) Dense Associative Memory through the Lens of Random Features. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. paper, code

• Saha, B., Krotov D., Zaki, M. J., & Ram, P. (2023) End-to-end Differentiable Clustering with Associative Memories. International Conference in Machine Learning. paper arXiv, code

• Ram, P., & Sinha, K. (2022). Federated Nearest Neighbor Classification with a Colony of Fruit-Flies. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 8036-8044). paper, arXiV code

• Sinha, K., & Ram, P. (2021). Fruit-Fly inspired neighborhood encoding for classification. Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (pp. 1470-1480). paper arXiv code

Workshop

• Saha, B., Krotov D., Zaki, M. J., & Ram, P. (2023) End-to-end Differentiable Clustering with Associative Memories. ICML 2023 workshop on Differentiable Almost Everything: Differentiable Relaxations, Algorithms, Operators, and Simulators. paper

• Ram, P., & Sinha, K. (2021). FlyNN: Fruit-fly Inspired Federated Nearest Neighbor Classification. International Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality in Conjunction with ICML 2021 (FL-ICML’21) (no official proceedings). paper