<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:20px 0px 0px;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hello!</span><br></div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div id="gmail-m_3951403932116244334gmail-m_-1406373698028745115gmail-m_-1306443023366191350gmail-m_4013489010569049059gmail-m_4116214766557360387gmail-m_-8233170000368065651gmail-m_-174023909957865247gmail-m_-7579865777147177295gmail-:1ax" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem"><div id="gmail-m_3951403932116244334gmail-m_-1406373698028745115gmail-m_-1306443023366191350gmail-m_4013489010569049059gmail-m_4116214766557360387gmail-m_-8233170000368065651gmail-m_-174023909957865247gmail-m_-7579865777147177295gmail-:1aw" style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_3951403932116244334gmail-m_-1406373698028745115gmail-m_-1306443023366191350gmail-m_4013489010569049059gmail-m_4116214766557360387gmail-m_-8233170000368065651gmail-m_-174023909957865247gmail-m_-7579865777147177295gmail-m_-5589201514418103536gmail-docs-internal-guid-1507eaca-7fff-e10c-3b6c-a1725b5eed21" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite submissions to the NeurIPS 2022 workshop on </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Memory in Artificial and Real Intelligence (MemARI)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One of the key challenges for AI systems is to understand, predict, and model data over time. Pretrained networks should be able to temporally generalize, or adapt to shifts in data distributions that occur over time. Our current state-of-the-art (SOTA) still struggles to model and understand data over long temporal durations – for example, SOTA models are limited to processing several seconds of video, and powerful transformer models are still fundamentally limited by their attention spans. By contrast, humans and other biological systems are able to flexibly store and update information in memory to comprehend and manipulate streams of input.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How should memory mechanisms be designed in deep learning, and what can this field learn from biological memory systems? MemARI aims to facilitate progress on these topics by bringing together researchers from machine learning, neuroscience, reinforcement learning, computer vision, natural language processing and other adjacent fields. We invite submissions presenting new and original research on topics including but not limited to the following:</span></p><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Computational models of biological memory</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Role of different biological memory systems in cognitive tasks, with implications for AI algorithms/architectures</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Biologically-inspired architectures to improve memory/temporal generalization</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">New approaches to improving memory in artificial systems</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Domain-specific uses of memory mechanisms (for ex., for lifelong learning, NLP, RL etc.)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Empirical and theoretical analyses of limitations in current artificial systems</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Datasets and tasks to evaluate memory mechanisms of artificial networks</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important dates:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Paper submission deadline: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thu </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">September 22nd, 2022</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> 23:59 [Anywhere on Earth]</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Decision Notification: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Fri October 14th, 2022 [17:00 hrs PT]</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop date: Dec 2, 2022 in-person @ New Orleans</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission instructions:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Submission Portal: </span><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2022/Workshop/MemARI&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline">MemARI OpenReview</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (currently accepting submissions)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">All submissions must be in PDF format.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Submissions are limited to four content pages, including all figures and tables; additional pages containing only references are allowed.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please use the </span><a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2022/PaperInformation/StyleFiles" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline">NeurIPS 2022 LaTeX style file</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Style or page limit violations (e.g., by decreasing margins or font sizes) may lead to automatic rejection</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">All submissions should be anonymous.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Per NeurIPS guidelines, previously published work is not acceptable for submission.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reviewing process & Acceptance:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The review process is double-blind.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Accepted papers will be presented during a poster session, with spotlight oral presentations for exceptional submissions. (with accommodation for virtual attendees)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Accepted papers will be made publicly available as non-archival reports, allowing future submissions to archival conferences or journals.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please direct questions and all future correspondence to </span><a style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">memari-workshop@googlegroups.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. More information on the workshop can be found on the </span><a href="https://memari-workshop.github.io/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MemARI website</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizers:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Uri Hasson, Princeton University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ken Norman, Princeton University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alex Huth, UT Austin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mariya Toneva, MPI for Software Systems</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shailee Jain, UT Austin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Javier Turek, Intel Labs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vy Vo, Intel Labs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mihai Capotă, Intel Labs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:247px;height:107px"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xLPpvuS27hOjl2tFHw3bXS4zM_8nO_KuFE1jmdtfccHUpB55o8LUYJMbI3k_YPcytHMhU9zA8NAjMGasPlU3GN8V2QNmqkqaZzvUxCsGy4j9pQ10Z2pFKMepsZBxpXZgUHYYnPJdLoCQJPidCz6Uhas" width="247" height="107" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></span></span></p></span></div></div></div></div></div>