NRGPT: An Energy-based Alternative for GPT
- 2026
- ICLR 2026
Conference paper
Benjamin Hoover
Title
Research Engineer
Bio
I am a Research Engineer working to breath efficiency and interpretability into foundation models using the lens of Associative Memories and Hopfield Networks.
Publications
Modern Methods in Associative Memory
- Dmitry Krotov
- Benjamin Hoover
- et al.
- 2026
- AAAI 2026
TutorialDense Associative Memory with Epanechnikov Energy
- Benjamin Hoover
- Zhaoyang Shi
- et al.
- 2025
- NeurIPS 2025
Conference paperConceptAttention: Diffusion Transformers Learn Highly Interpretable Features
- Alec Helbling
- Tuna Meral
- et al.
- 2025
- ICML 2025
Conference paperModern Methods in Associative Memory
- Dmitry Krotov
- Benjamin Hoover
- et al.
- 2025
- ICML 2025
TutorialDense Associative Memory with Epanechnikov energy
- Benjamin Hoover
- Krishnakumar Balasubramanian
- et al.
- 2025
- ICLR 2025
Workshop paperDense Associative Memory Through the Lens of Random Features
- Benjamin Hoover
- Duen Horng Chau
- et al.
- 2024
- NeurIPS 2024
Conference paperEnergy Transformer
- Benjamin Hoover
- Yuchen Liang
- et al.
- 2023
- NeurIPS 2023
Conference paperMemory in Plain Sight: A Survey of the Uncanny Resemblances between Diffusion Models and Associative Memories
- 2023
- NeurIPS 2023
Workshop paperDiffusionDB: A Large-scale Prompt Gallery Dataset for Text-to-Image Generative Models
- Zijie Wang
- Evan Montoya
- et al.
- 2023
- ACL 2023
Conference paper
Blog posts
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