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18<!-- HEAD_svelte-1xor2re_END --><!-- HEAD_svelte-1o4nf5_START --><!-- HEAD_svelte-1o4nf5_END --> 19 </head> 20 <body data-sveltekit-preload-data="hover"> 21 <div style="display: contents"> 22 23 24 25 26 27 28<div id="svelte"> 29 <div class="layout w-[90%] sm:w-[93%] svelte-1uy25mv"> 30 31<base target="_blank"> 32 33<div class="page-container sm:grid grid-cols-12 gap-x-4 md:my-12"><div class="grid grid-cols-[90px_1fr] gap-4 md:grid-cols-[150px_1fr] md:gap-8 main-col svelte-8wwqlc"><div class="self-center"><a href="imgs/people/me-headshot.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-8wwqlc"><img class="rounded-lg shadow-lg" src="imgs/people/me-headshot-small.jpg" alt="Ben's headshot"></a></div> 34 <div class="flex flex-col gap-2 justify-items-start align-items-start md:gap-8"><div class=""><h1 class="text-3xl md:text-4xl text-slate-700 font-semibold mb-0.5">Hi, I'm Ben Hoover 35 </h1> 36 <h2 class="text-xl md:text-3xl text-slate-400 font-light">I'm an AI Researcher studying <span class="font-medium text-slate-500">memory</span></h2></div> 37 38 <div class="flex text-xl gap-2 xs:gap-4"><div class="bg-slate-100 p-2 rounded-full hover:bg-slate-300 text-gray-600 text-sm"><a target="_blank" href="/cv" rel="noreferrer" class="no-border svelte-8wwqlc">CV 39 </a></div> 40 <div class="bg-slate-100 p-2 rounded-full hover:bg-slate-300 text-md"><a target="_blank" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n10P0tYAAAAJ&hl=en" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-8wwqlc"><span class="iconify" data-icon="mdi-school" style="color: #515151"></span></a> 41 </div><div class="bg-slate-100 p-2 rounded-full hover:bg-slate-300 text-md"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benhoov/" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-8wwqlc"><span class="iconify" data-icon="mdi-linkedin" style="color: #515151"></span></a> 42 </div><div class="bg-slate-100 p-2 rounded-full hover:bg-slate-300 text-md"><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ben_hoov" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-8wwqlc"><span class="iconify" data-icon="mdi-twitter" style="color: #515151"></span></a> 43 </div><div class="bg-slate-100 p-2 rounded-full hover:bg-slate-300 text-md"><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/bhoov" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-8wwqlc"><span class="iconify" data-icon="mdi-github" style="color: #515151"></span></a> 44 </div></div></div></div> 45 46 <div class="intro-paragraph main-col svelte-8wwqlc"><p class="text-gray-500 border-l-2 pl-4 text-2xl my-8 main-col svelte-8wwqlc">Understanding 47 <a href="https://research.ibm.com/blog/what-are-foundation-models" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-8wwqlc">AI foundation models</a> 48 from the perspective of large 49 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_memory_(psychology)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-8wwqlc">Associative Memories</a>. 50 </p> 51 <div class="text-slate-700 flex flex-col gap-4 leading-6 font-light main-col svelte-8wwqlc"><p>I am a Machine Learning PhD candidate at 52 <a href="https://poloclub.github.io/" class="svelte-8wwqlc">Georgia Tech</a> advised by 53 <a href="https://poloclub.github.io/polochau/" class="svelte-8wwqlc">Polo Chau</a>. I 54 successfully defended my PhD thesis on 6 July 2026. My research 55 focuses on building more interpretable and 56 parameter efficient AI by rethinking the way we train and build 57 deep models, taking inspiration from Associative Memories and
58 <a href="http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hopfield_network" class="svelte-8wwqlc">Hopfield Networks</a>. I like to visualize what happens inside AI models. 59 </p></div></div> 60 <h1 class="main-col mt-8 svelte-8wwqlc">News</h1> 61 <div class="news-list flex flex-col sm:contents mx-2 gap-0.5 overflow-y-auto svelte-8wwqlc"> 62 <div class="left-gutter justify-self-end font-light text-slate-400 text-xs svelte-8wwqlc">July 2026</div> 63 <div class="main-col mb-2 svelte-8wwqlc"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->𥳠Defended <a href="/papers/benjamin-hoover-thesis.pdf">my thesis</a> titled "Memory as Computation: Associative Memory as a Foundation for Modern AI"! Watch recording on <a href="https://youtu.be/NoAnSDAQq0k">YouTube</a> ð¥.<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></div> 64 65 <div class="left-gutter justify-self-end font-light text-slate-400 text-xs svelte-8wwqlc">June 2026</div> 66 <div class="main-col mb-2 svelte-8wwqlc"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->ð Awarded an <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/higher-education-research/academic-grant-program/">NVIDIA Academic Grant Program</a> gift valued at $57k.<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></div> 67 68 <div class="left-gutter justify-self-end font-light text-slate-400 text-xs svelte-8wwqlc">May 2026</div> 69 <div class="main-col mb-2 svelte-8wwqlc"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->ð Recognized as a Gold Reviewer (top 25%) for ICML 2026.<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></div> 70 71 <div class="left-gutter justify-self-end font-light text-slate-400 text-xs svelte-8wwqlc">Jan 2026</div> 72 <div class="main-col mb-2 svelte-8wwqlc"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->𥳠Our paper <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16762">"NRGPT"</a> is accepted to ICLR 2026. See you in Rio, and swing by our <a href="https://nfam2026.amemory.net/">associative memory workshop</a> while you're there! ð¥³<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></div> 73 74 <div class="left-gutter justify-self-end font-light text-slate-400 text-xs svelte-8wwqlc">Nov 2025</div> 75 <div class="main-col mb-2 svelte-8wwqlc"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Our next iteration of the "New Frontiers in Associative Memory" workshop is accepted to ICLR 2026. See you in Rio! ð¥³<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></div> 76 77 <div class="left-gutter justify-self-end font-light text-slate-400 text-xs svelte-8wwqlc">Nov 2025</div> 78 <div class="main-col mb-2 svelte-8wwqlc"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->ð I received a <a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/ProgramCommittee">Top Reviewer</a> award at NeurIPS 2025 (top 8% of 24k+ reviewers).<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></div> 79 80 <div class="w-full justify-self-end main-col text-slate-400 hover:cursor-pointer hover:text-slate-700 svelte-8wwqlc">See more...</div></div> 81 82 <section id="thesis" class="main-col mt-12 rounded-lg bg-slate-50 px-5 py-5 ring-1 ring-slate-100 md:px-6 svelte-8wwqlc"><p class="mb-2 text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-slate-400">PhD Thesis · 2026 83 </p> 84 <a class="thesis-title block text-xl font-semibold leading-snug text-slate-700 transition-colors hover:text-blue-500 md:text-2xl svelte-8wwqlc" href="/papers/benjamin-hoover-thesis.pdf" rel="noreferrer">Memory as Computation: Associative Memory as a Foundation for Modern AI 85 </a> 86 <div class="mt-3 flex flex-wrap gap-x-5 gap-y-2 text-sm font-medium"><a class="border-0 text-blue-500 hover:text-blue-700 svelte-8wwqlc" href="/papers/benjamin-hoover-thesis.pdf" rel="noreferrer">Read the thesis (PDF) â 87 </a> 88 <a class="border-0 text-blue-500 hover:text-blue-700 svelte-8wwqlc" href="https://youtu.be/NoAnSDAQq0k" rel="noreferrer">Watch the defense (YouTube) â 89 </a></div></section> 90 91 <h1 class="main-col mt-12 svelte-8wwqlc" id="selected-memory">Research Highlights 92 </h1> 93 <div class="col-start-3 col-end-11 flex flex-wrap gap-4 md:col-start-2 md:col-end-12"><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div>
93<img src="imgs/thumbnails/nrgpt-thumbnail.png" alt="Thumbnail for NRGPT" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 94 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">NRGPT</h2> 95 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">A minimal modification of GPT unifies it with the energy-based model framework, where inference becomes an exploration of tokens on an energy landscape.</div></div> 96 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16762" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 97 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 98 99</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://github.com/bhoov/nrgpt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-source-branch" style="color: #515151"></div> 100 <span class="">Code</span></div></a> 101 102</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="/nrgpt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-link" style="color: #515151"></div> 103 <span class="">Home</span></div></a> 104 105</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://recorder-v3.slideslive.com/#/share?share=109460&s=a5cb5c43-b963-498a-ac2a-cfdb97ffa581" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-video" style="color: #515151"></div> 106 <span class="">Slideslive Video</span></div></a> 107 108</span></div></div></div> 109</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div><img src="imgs/thumbnails/epadam.jpg" alt="Thumbnail for Epanechnikov DenseAM" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 110 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">Epanechnikov DenseAM</h2> 111 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">Dense Associative Memories can produce emergent memories when we replace the Gaussian kernel with a KDE-optimal Epanechnikov kernel.</div></div> 112 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10801" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 113 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 114 115</span></div></div></div> 116</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div><img src="imgs/thumbnails/amtutorial.webp" alt="Thumbnail for Tutorial on Associative Memory" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 117 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">Tutorial on Associative Memory</h2> 118 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">Energy-based Associative Memory transformed the field of AI, but it is hardly understood. We present a birds eye view of Associative Memory, beginning with the invention of the Hopfield Network and concluding with modern, dense storage versions that have strong connections to Transformers and kernel methods.</div></div> 119 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://github.com/bhoov/amtutorial" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-source-branch" style="color: #515151"></div>
120 <span class="">Code</span></div></a> 121 122</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06211" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 123 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 124 125</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://tutorial.amemory.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-link" style="color: #515151"></div> 126 <span class="">Home</span></div></a> 127 128</span></div></div></div> 129</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div><img src="imgs/thumbnails/ConceptAttention.webp" alt="Thumbnail for ConceptAttention" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 130 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">ConceptAttention</h2> 131 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">We discover how to extract highly salient features from the learned representations of Diffusion Transformers, using our technique to segment images by semantic concept. We name our technique ConceptAttention, which outperforms all prior methods on single- and multi-class classification.</div></div> 132 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://github.com/helblazer811/ConceptAttention?tab=readme-ov-file" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-source-branch" style="color: #515151"></div> 133 <span class="">Code</span></div></a> 134 135</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04320" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 136 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 137 138</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXD3oiLT3uE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-video" style="color: #515151"></div> 139 <span class="">Video</span></div></a> 140 141</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/helblazer811/ConceptAttention" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-play" style="color: #515151"></div> 142 <span class="">Demo</span></div></a> 143 144</span></div></div></div> 145</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div>
145<img src="imgs/thumbnails/drdam.png" alt="Thumbnail for DenseAMs meet Random Features" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 146 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">DenseAMs meet Random Features</h2> 147 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">DenseAMs can store an exponential number of memories, but each memory adds new parameters to the energy function. We propose a novel, "Distributed representation for DenseAMs" (DrDAM) that allows us to add new memories without increasing the total number of parameters.</div></div> 148 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://github.com/bhoov/distributed_DAM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-source-branch" style="color: #515151"></div> 149 <span class="">Code</span></div></a> 150 151</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24153" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 152 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 153 154</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="/posters/drdam-36x48.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 155 <span class="">Poster</span></div></a> 156 157</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://recorder-v3.slideslive.com/#/share?share=97038&s=3c7ede33-220c-4c28-a72e-86835e88c4db" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-video" style="color: #515151"></div> 158 <span class="">Video</span></div></a> 159 160</span></div></div></div> 161</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div><img src="imgs/thumbnails/transformer-explainer.gif" alt="Thumbnail for Transformer Explainer" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 162 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">Transformer Explainer</h2> 163 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">Transformers are the most powerful AI innovation of the last decade. Learn how they work by interacting with every mechanic from the comfort of your web browser. Taught in Georgia Tech CSE6242 Data and Visual Analytics (typically 250-300 students per semester).</div></div> 164 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-play" style="color: #515151"></div> 165 <span class="">Demo</span></div></a> 166 167</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04619" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div>
168 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 169 170</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://github.com/poloclub/transformer-explainer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-source-branch" style="color: #515151"></div> 171 <span class="">Code</span></div></a> 172 173</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECR4oAwocjs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-video" style="color: #515151"></div> 174 <span class="">Video</span></div></a> 175 176</span></div></div></div> 177</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div><img src="imgs/thumbnails/PlainSight.png" alt="Thumbnail for Memory in Plain Sight" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 178 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">Memory in Plain Sight</h2> 179 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">We are the first work to discover that diffusion models perform memory retrieval in their denoising dynamics.</div></div> 180 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16750" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 181 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 182 183</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="/posters/memory-in-plain-sight-24x36.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 184 <span class="">Poster</span></div></a> 185 186</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="/memory-in-plain-sight" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-link" style="color: #515151"></div> 187 <span class="">Home</span></div></a> 188 189</span></div></div></div> 190</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div><img src="imgs/thumbnails/energy-transformer.png" alt="Thumbnail for Energy Transformer" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 191 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">Energy Transformer</h2> 192 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">We derive an Associative Memory inspired by the famous Transformer architecture, where the forward pass through the model is memory retrieval by energy descent.</div></div> 193 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07253" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div>
194 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 195 196</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="/posters/energy-transformer-24x36.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 197 <span class="">Poster</span></div></a> 198 199</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="/energy-transformer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-link" style="color: #515151"></div> 200 <span class="">Home</span></div></a> 201 202</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://github.com/bhoov/energy-transformer-jax" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-source-branch" style="color: #515151"></div> 203 <span class="">Code</span></div></a> 204 205</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://recorder-v3.slideslive.com/#/share?share=88188&s=6a61b5bf-c59b-4ef5-b71f-be4156c92dd5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-video" style="color: #515151"></div> 206 <span class="">Video (5m)</span></div></a> 207 208</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/deeplearning23/krotov/rm/jwvideo.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-video" style="color: #515151"></div> 209 <span class="">Video (45m)</span></div></a> 210 211</span></div></div></div> 212</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div><img src="imgs/thumbnails/diffusion-explainer.png" alt="Thumbnail for Diffusion Explainer" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 213 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">Diffusion Explainer</h2> 214 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">Diffusion models are complicated. We break down Stable Diffusion and explain each component of the model visually. Taught in Georgia Tech CSE6242 Data and Visual Analytics (typically 250-300 students per semester).</div></div> 215 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://poloclub.github.io/diffusion-explainer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-play" style="color: #515151"></div> 216 <span class="">Demo</span></div></a> 217 218</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03509" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div>
219 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 220 221</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg4gxdIWDds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-video" style="color: #515151"></div> 222 <span class="">Video</span></div></a> 223 224</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://github.com/poloclub/diffusion-explainer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-source-branch" style="color: #515151"></div> 225 <span class="">Code</span></div></a> 226 227</span></div></div></div> 228</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div><img src="imgs/thumbnails/hamux-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Thumbnail for HAMUX" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 229 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">HAMUX</h2> 230 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">We invent a software abstraction around "synapses" and "neurons" to assemble energy functions of complicated Associative Memories, where memory retrieval is performed through autograd.</div></div> 231 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://github.com/bhoov/hamux" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-source-branch" style="color: #515151"></div> 232 <span class="">Code</span></div></a> 233 234</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://bhoov.github.io/hamux/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-link" style="color: #515151"></div> 235 <span class="">Project</span></div></a> 236 237</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://openreview.net/pdf?id=SAv3nhzNWhw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 238 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 239 240</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://youtu.be/x_jJed5KjP8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-video" style="color: #515151"></div> 241 <span class="">Video</span></div></a> 242 243</span></div></div></div> 244</div><div class="card w-full sm:w-72 p-6 rounded-xl bg-gray-100 hover:cursor-pointer svelte-1av0c4o"><div class="h-full w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between h-full gap-8"><div><img src="imgs/thumbnails/rxnmapper.png" alt="Thumbnail for RXNMapper" class="mx-auto mb-4 w-full h-[100px] object-cover object-left-top svelte-1av0c4o"> 245 <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-2">RXNMapper</h2> 246 <div class="text-gray-500 font-light leading-5">We discover that Transformers trained on chemical reactions learn, on their own, how atoms physically rearrange.</div></div> 247 <div class="flex gap-1 w-full flex-wrap"><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="http://rxnmapper.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-link" style="color: #515151"></div>
248 <span class="">Project</span></div></a> 249 250</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="http://rxnmapper.ai/demo.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-play" style="color: #515151"></div> 251 <span class="">Demo</span></div></a> 252 253</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/15/eabe4166" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-file-document-outline" style="color: #515151"></div> 254 <span class="">PDF</span></div></a> 255 256</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://vimeo.com/434757113" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-video" style="color: #515151"></div> 257 <span class="">Video</span></div></a> 258 259</span><span class="text-xs font-medium items-center gap-x-1 bg-blue-100 py-0.5 px-1.5 rounded-2xl hover:bg-blue-400 hover:text-white hover:svg-invert hover:no-underline flex"><a href="https://github.com/rxn4chemistry/rxnmapper" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="svelte-ld8nd6"><div class="flex gap-1 justify-items-center items-center"><div class="iconify social-link-tag" data-icon="mdi-source-branch" style="color: #515151"></div> 260 <span class="">Code</span></div></a> 261 262</span></div></div></div> 263</div></div> 264 265 </div> 266 267 268</div> 269 270 <footer class="svelte-1uy25mv"></footer> 271</div> 272 273 274 275
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