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A complementary learning system for continual episodic memory in large language models

2026-08-27

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Humans retain memories of individual experiences for a lifetime, an ability attributed to a complementary learning system in which a fast process encodes episodes and a slow process integrates them into semantic knowledge. In classical Hebbian models such as Hopfield networks, memory traces are superposed in shared weights. This makes learning naturally continual but causes strong interference among correlated mem...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.24.746712

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