The following times are reported in Rio de Janeiro local time (BRT) for Room 201C on Sunday April 26, 2026.

Time Event Speaker(s)
09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks
Benjamin Hoover
09:10-09:40 Memory for Self-Evolving Multimodal Agents (Invited)
Paul Liang
09:40-10:10 Beyond Scaling Laws: Understanding Transformer Performance with Associative Memory (Invited)
Xueyan Niu
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-10:45 Towards Context-Based Retrieval in Associative Memories (Oral)
Moulik ChorariaArgyrios GerogiannisVidhata JayaramanAnkur ManiLav R. Varshney
10:45-11:00 Training a Convergent Energy Transformer with Equilibrium Propagation (Oral)
Rasmus HøierTugdual KerjanBenjamin Scellier
11:00-11:15 Generative Associative Memory via Equilibrium Matching (Oral)
Adrian RodriguezBenjamin HooverYunhui GuoYilun Du
11:15-11:30 On low-dimensional representations and associative memory energy functions (Oral)
David Lipshutz
11:30-11:45 Dense Associative Memories with Analog Circuits (Oral)
Marc G BacvanskiXincheng YouDmitry Krotov
11:45-13:30 Lunch Break & Poster Session
13:30-13:45 Sparse Associative Memories Through the Lens of Compact Kernel Regression (Oral)
Saul SantosNuno GonçalvesDaniel C McNameeMarcos Vinicius TrevisoAndrei Martins
13:45-14:15 From Theory to Throughput: Unifying Architectures and Scaling Deep Memory (Invited)
Meisam Razaviyayn
14:15-14:30 Dense Associative Memory for Gaussian Distributions (Oral)
Chandan TankalaKrishna Balasubramanian
14:30-14:45 A Dynamical Theory of Sequential Retrieval in Input-Driven Hopfield Networks (Oral)
Simone BettetiSandro ZampieriGiacomo Baggio
14:45-15:15 Poster Session & Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 Complementary Learning Systems in Brains and Machines (Invited)
James McClelland
15:45-16:15 Analog Computing for Associative Memory (Invited)
Jona Nagerl
16:15-17:00 Associative Memory and AI: past, present, and future (Panel)
James McClellandDmitry KrotovParikshit RamAlec Helbling (moderator)