Research

Born from research, AI for human memory

Memory is Not Search: Toward Proactive, Lifelong Memory in AI

Publication

May 2026

Memory is Not Search: Toward Proactive, Lifelong Memory in AI

This position paper argues that search is insufficient for memory and that AI systems need distinct mechanisms to proactively recall information from lifelong, multimodal memoromes — pointing to new datasets, benchmarks, and architectures as the way forward.

Stretching beyond the obvious

Publication

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

April 2026

Stretching beyond the obvious

This paper introduces the Stretch-and-Squeeze (SnS) framework to map a neural unit's "invariance landscape," revealing how specific transformations like pose or lighting can change an input without altering the unit's response, thereby bridging the gap between artificial and biological visual perception.

What do people need to remember?

Blog

March 2026

What do people need to remember?

This study collected 1,940 personal memory questions from 134 participants during daily life, revealing the types of information people most commonly struggle to recall and the activities during which these memory needs arise.

Can machines imitate humans?

Publication

Nature Human Behaviour

March 2026

Can machines imitate humans?

This research introduces a methodology to directly compare human and machine output side by side and shows that state-of-the-art AI algorithms can mimic humans surprisingly well across vision and language tasks.

Replay mechanism to mimic human-like memory recall

Publication

TNNLS

February 2025

Replay mechanism to mimic human-like memory recall

Inspired by how biological brains learn, this work introduces novel replay-based algorithms to tackle the problem of continual learning.

How does the brain store and retrieve memories?

Publication

Nature Human Behavior

October 2024

How does the brain store and retrieve memories?

Sparsity of representations emerges as an intriguing algorithm to ameliorate the problem of continual learning.

How spatial and temporal information are encoded in memories

Publication

Cell Reports

November 2023

How spatial and temporal information are encoded in memories

The authors discovered a novel mechanism by which neurons tile temporal space to encode memories.

How sparse representation enables compression of events into memories

Publication

ICLR

March 2023

How sparse representation enables compression of events into memories

Sparsity of representations emerges as an intriguing algorithm to ameliorate the problem of continual learning.

Modeling the inductive biases that predict visual memories

Publication

NeurIPS

September 2022

Modeling the inductive biases that predict visual memories

Performance in complex tasks requiring memory is improved by incorporating into algorithms human-like inductive biases and training diets.

Theoretical foundation describing the interplay between forgetting, replay and continual learning

Publication

Scientific Reports

July 2022

Theoretical foundation describing the interplay between forgetting, replay and continual learning

The right amount of forgetting and information replay can help counter capacity limitations in memory.

How the brain detects boundaries between two distinct memories

Publication

Nature Neuroscience

March 2022

How the brain detects boundaries between two distinct memories

This research elucidates how the brain parcelates continuous experience into discrete events that form the basic structure of memories.

Predicting what people remember in the real world

Publication

Scientific Reports

November 2018

Predicting what people remember in the real world

This work introduces machine learning models to predict whether specific real world events will be remembered or not.

Predicting what people remember from movies

Publication

Scientific Reports

September 2016

Predicting what people remember from movies

This work introduces machine learning models to predict whether specific events within movies will be remembered or not.