arxivcs.LGcs.AI2026-07-20
The Art of Not Forgetting
Ashmith Atmuri, Akshay Kumar, Yashaswini Rao Bhogarajula
We introduce CMP (Cognitive Memory Primitive), an architecture that represents inputs as sparse relational codes, stores them in a two-tier competitive memory, and learns entirely through local, gradient-free updates, with no backpropagation anywhere in the network. We use this a…