VSAONLINE. SEASON 12. February 16, 20:00GMT. Christopher Kymn.
Evgeny Osipov
Dear all,
Welcome to the next talk of Season 12 on VSAONLINE. Christopher Kymn from UC Berkeley will give a talk
”Oscillator associative memories facilitate high-capacity, compositional inference”
Date: February 16, 2026
Time: 20:00 GMT
Zoom: https://ltu-se.zoom.us/j/65564790287
Abstract: We introduce a high-capacity associative memory capable of factorizing compositional representations of variables. The proposed approach is implemented as a continuous-time oscillator neural network. By performing factorization with a continuous-time dynamical system, the proposed Factorizing Oscillator Associative Memory (FOAM) provides efficient solutions to computationally hard problems such as inference in compositional representations and combinatorial optimization. We demonstrate favorable performance compared to existing approaches to factorization, improved interpretability, and relevance to standard tasks such as the subset sum problem.