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pith:2023:PBQOYM6NPEUPNNLYDUYK6I7UTI

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Memory in Plain Sight: Surveying the Uncanny Resemblances of Associative Memories and Diffusion Models

Benjamin Hoover, Dmitry Krotov, Duen Horng Chau, Hendrik Strobelt, Judy Hoffman, Zsolt Kira

arxiv:2309.16750 v2 · 2023-09-28 · cs.LG · cs.AI · math.DS

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Language Diffusion Models are Associative Memories Capable of Retrieving Unseen Data

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7860ec33cd7928f6b5781d30af23f49a39002457f8610db28aef3493db01747a

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arxiv: 2309.16750 · arxiv_version: 2309.16750v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.16750 · pith_short_12: PBQOYM6NPEUP · pith_short_16: PBQOYM6NPEUPNNLY · pith_short_8: PBQOYM6N

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PBQOYM6NPEUPNNLYDUYK6I7UTI \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
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