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  1. Rethinking Memorization Mitigation in Diffusion Models: Reinforcing Text Conditioning

    Oct 1, 2026Hyungjun Joo, Sehwan Kim, Hyeonggeun Han +2Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Models

    Seoul National University · Konkuk University

  2. In-context Learning of Single-index Targets: Comparing Kernel and Feature Learners

    Oct 1, 2026Haotian Gu, Yizhou Xu, Lenka ZdeborováIn-Context LearningLinear Attention

    Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Information, Learning and Physics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

  3. Generalization in Neural Networks Through the Lens of Magnitude Potential

    Oct 1, 2026Sahel Torkamani, Henry Gouk, Rik SarkarNeural CollapseNeural Network

    School of Informatics University of Edinburgh

  4. Localizing Transfer Between Memorization Tasks

    Sep 30, 2026Yimiao Yu, Florentin GuthTransfer LearningPretraining

    Center for Data Science New York University · Center for Computational Neuroscience Flatiron Institute

  5. From Modes to Memories: Characterizing the Scale-Space Dynamics of Diffusion Models

    Sep 30, 2026Cristina López Amado, Marco Fumero, Francesco LocatelloDiffusion ModelsMemorization

    Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

  6. Memorize, Adapt, Ignore: Diagnosing Robot Learning Mechanisms under Training Data Variation

    Sep 29, 2026Ke Zhang, Danica J. Sutherland, Chao LiuScalable Robot LearningImitation Learning

    PRIME Robotics Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia · Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

  7. First Learn, Then Memorize: The Spectral Bias of Diffusion Models

    Sep 28, 2026Raphaël Urfin, Tony Bonnaire, Giulio Biroli +1Neural Tangent KernelDiffusion Models

    Laboratoire de Physique de l’École normale supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, F-75005 Paris, France · Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, 91405 Orsay, France · Department of Computing Sciences, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy

  8. MemoReason: Evaluating the Effect of Parametric Memory on Contextual Reasoning in LLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Zineddine Tighidet, Andrea Mogini, Jiali Mei +2LLM Reasoning StrategiesContextual Reasoning

    BNP Paribas Paris, France · Sorbonne Université Paris, France · Criteo AI Lab

  9. Don't Forget! Decomposing the Training Dynamics of Memorization in Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Florian Eichin, Philipp Mondorf, Andrei Mircea +3MemorizationRecurrent Model

    MaiNLP, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich & Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Germany · Mila – Quebec AI Institute & University of Montreal, Canada · Saarland University, Germany

  10. Remember by Asking: Retrieval-Induced Memory Evolution for LLM Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Wanqi Zhou, Jiawei Lu, Yang Wang +4Memorization

    Chang’an University

  11. Learning to Learn from Context: Synthetic Training from Perturbed Public Documents

    Sep 27, 2026Haoyi Wu, Yang Xiao, Yusong Sun +4LLM Reasoning StrategiesContextual Reasoning

    AllSpark Team

  12. Memorisation bias in medical AI

    Sep 15, 2026Moritz A. Knolle, Martin J. Menten, Laurin Lux +5Mimic-Iv DatasetsMemorization

    Chair for AI in Healthcare and Medicine, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TUM University Hospital, Germany. · Munich Center for Machine Learning, Germany. · Department of Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. +1

  13. On the Importance of Gating: Memorization vs. In-Context Learning in State Space Models

    Sep 15, 2026William L. Tong, Aryo Lotfi, Emmanuel Abbe +6State Space ModelsSequence Modeling

    Harvard University · Apple

  14. Quantifying the Memorization-to-Generalization Transition: Scaling Laws and Phase Structure in Grokking

    Sep 12, 2026Anish KatariaGrokkingOverparameterization

    Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

  15. Auditing Patient Privacy in Medical Generative Models: Scalable Memorization Detection with DeepSSIM++

    Sep 3, 2026Antonio Scardace, Francesco Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato +1Medical Image GenerationGenerative Models

    University of Catania, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Catania, Italy

  16. CopyShield: A Cross-Level Benchmark of Copyright Defenses in LLMs

    Sep 1, 2026Maryam Alshehyari, Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Samuele Poppi +3Copyright DefensesContrastive Decoding

    Computing and Mathematical Science Division Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

  17. Measuring Memory and Generalization as Separable Geometric Channels: The Topo^2 Framework

    Aug 31, 2026Zhanbo Zhang, Ming Liu, Qing WangMemorizationTopology

    Anhui iFlytek Yinglian Technology Co., Ltd.

  18. Balancing Privacy, Utility, and Safety in LLM Alignment through Preference Optimization

    Aug 31, 2026Dishu Yang, Jingjing Liu, Jize LiPrivacyLarge Language Model Alignment

    Khoury College of Computer Sciences Northeastern University San Jose, USA · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, USA · Department of Economics Boston University Boston, USA

  19. AgenticRag-R1: Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Stack Memory for Multi-Step Reasoning, Retrieval and Memorizing

    Aug 30, 2026Xinke Jiang, Yue Fang, Zhibang Yang +12Agentic Reinforcement LearningAgentic Benchmarks

    National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China +3

  20. Memorization Diagnostics for Code LLMs Should be Scale-Aware

    Aug 13, 2026Prateek Kumar Rajput, Abdoul Aziz Bonkoungou, Alberick Euraste Djiré +6MemorizationRepresentational Capacity

    University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

  21. Temporal Leakage in LLM Backtesting: Measurement, Validation, and Adjusted Scores

    Aug 4, 2026Zeyu Zhang, Bradly C. StadieMemorizationValidation

    Department of Statistics and Data Science Northwestern University

  22. Secrets Everywhere: Auditing Memorization in Mobility Prediction Models

    Aug 3, 2026Anne Josiane Kouam, Hristo Boyadzhiev, Konrad RieckMobilityPrivacy

    Inria & TU Berlin Palaiseau, France · BIFOLD & TU Berlin Berlin, Germany

  23. Tunneling the Loss Landscape: Bypassing Memorization with Monte Carlo Parameter Swapping

    Aug 3, 2026Lai Shun Chan, Xiaotian Zhang, Yue Shang +2GrokkingMemorization

    Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA · 3Innovation Campus Delaware, Air Liquide, Newark, DE, USA

  24. Exemplars in Disguise: Pure Exemplar Models Mimic Abstraction-First Learning

    Aug 1, 2026Zachary Nicholas Houghton, Vsevolod KapatsinskiLanguage ModelingMemorization

    University of Oregon · Vail Systems, Inc.

  25. DASH: Decoupled Adaptive Surrogate - Acquisition Harness for Automated Bayesian Optimization

    Aug 1, 2026Changquan Zhao, Yuxiang Sun, Ruihao Zhu +2Bayesian OptimizationSurrogates

    Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

  26. Library Reachability in LSR-Synth: How Anti-Memorization Design Changes the Measurement of Symbolic Discovery

    Jul 30, 2026Zhan'ao Yao, Liang Yin, Zhihao Gao +9Scientific DiscoverySynthetic Benchmark

    State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China · Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China +4

  27. What do Reward Models Memorize?

    Jul 27, 2026Ivo Verhoeven, Pushkar Mishra, Ekaterina ShutovaProgress Reward ModelingPreference Datasets

    ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom

  28. Reasoning or Memorization: Can LLMs Understand and Generate Chinese Xiehouyu Riddles?

    Jul 26, 2026Hai Hu, Siyuan Song, Chongtian Shao +3LLM Reasoning StrategiesReasoning Skills

    1The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · 2The University of Texas at Austin · 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  29. DCS: A Unified Conditional Sensitivity Framework for Cross-Modal Copyright Infringement Detection

    Jul 24, 2026Xiafeng ManInference-Time DefenseMemorization

    Fudan University

  30. How Much Can a LoRA Adapter Memorize? Measuring Adapter Capacity in Bits

    Jul 23, 2026Kaizhen Tan, Heqing Du, Yang FengLow-Rank Adaptation AdaptersModel Fine-Tuning

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

  31. Signed Rectified Flow: Negativity-Controlled Generation

    Jul 20, 2026Runlong Liao, Baiyu Su, Lizhang Chen +1Rectified FlowGenerative Flow Networks

    UT Austin

  32. Distribution-First Population Simulation: Collapse, Calibration, and Recall in Non-WEIRD LLM Persona Modeling

    Jul 17, 2026Gurkan OzkanArtificial Intelligence PersonasUser Simulation

    Istanbul Technical University

  33. Algebraic Representability as the Limiting Regime of Grokking: An Exactly Solvable Model with Holomorphic Activations

    Jul 15, 2026Chon-Fai Kam, Xavier Cadet, Miloud Bessafi +1GrokkingTwo-Layer Neural Networks

    University Paris City & University of Reunion, Paris, France · Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica Emilio Segrè, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy · Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA +2

  34. Local Redundancy: An Information-Theoretic Measure of Plasticity from Synthetic Memorization

    Jul 15, 2026Jiaxuan ChengPlasticitySingular Learning Theory

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  35. Extractable Memorization From First Principles

    Jul 14, 2026A. Feder Cooper, Marika Swanberg, Jamie Hayes +5MemorizationPrinciples

    Yale, AVERI, Stanford · Google Research · Google DeepMind +2

  36. The Geometry of Memorization: Finite-Time Spectral Sensitivity as a Diagnostic for Flow Matching Models

    Jul 14, 2026Shuchan WangMemorizationSpectral

  37. Fisher Rank Inflation: A Spectral Signature of Memorization under Label Noise

    Jul 14, 2026Satwik Bathula, Anand A. JoshiDeep NetworkMemorization

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California

  38. Reducing information dependency does not cause training data privacy. Adversarially non-robust features do

    Jul 14, 2026Rasmus Torp, Shailen K. Smith, Adam BreuerPrivacyTraining Data

    Department of Computer Science Dartmouth College · Department of Computer Science & Department of Government Dartmouth College

  39. Random Label Prediction Heads for Studying Memorization in Deep Neural Networks

    Jul 13, 2026Marlon Becker, Jonas Konrad, Luis Garcia Rodriguez +1MemorizationNeural Network

    University of Münster, Germany

  40. Towards Mechanistically Understanding Why Memorized Knowledge Fails to Generalize in Large Language Model Finetuning

    Jul 9, 2026Lu Dai, Ziyang Rao, Yili Wang +3MemorizationReasoning Gaps

    HKUST · HKUST(GZ)

  41. The Orthogonalized Read Is a Removable Training Scaffold for Recurrent Memory

    Jul 2, 2026Keston Aquino-MichaelsOrthogonalityMemorization

    No Way Labs

  42. Probing Stylistic Appropriation using Large Language Models: An Evaluation Framework for Copyright Infringement under EU Law

    Jun 30, 2026Noah Scharrenberg, Chang SunStylistic FidelityCopyright Defenses

    Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. · Contractuo, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

  43. Probing Memorization of Tabular In-Context Learning

    Jun 30, 2026Francesco Capano, Jonas BöhlerParametric MemoryTabular Learning

    SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany.

  44. Explaining Machine Learning and Memorization with Statistical Mechanics

    Jun 30, 2026Robin TheriaultDense Associative MemoryNeural Network

    Faculty of Science

  45. What Drives the Inlier-Memorization Effect? A Theory of Outlier Detection via Early Training Dynamics

    Jun 29, 2026Kunwoong Kim, Dongha KimOutliersAbnormality

    KAIST AI · Department of Statistics Center for Data Science Sungshin Women’s University

  46. Decomposing Memorization Reduction in Privacy-Preserving Fine-Tuning of SLMs for CSIRTs

    Jun 26, 2026Cristhian Kapelinski, Diego KreutzLarge Language Model Fine-TuningMemorization

    Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), Alegrete, Brazil

  47. Applicability of memorization indicators for early spotting of overfitting while recalibrating sEMG-decoders on low sample sizes

    Jun 26, 2026Stephan J. Lehmler, Tobias Glasmachers, Ioannis IossifidisSurface ElectromyographyMemorization

    German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute for AI Safety and Security, Ulm, Germany · Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany · Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany +1

  48. MultiMem: Measuring and Mitigating Memorization in Multi-Modal Contrastive Learning

    Jun 20, 2026Wenhao Wang, Franziska Boenisch, Michael Backes +1Multimodal Contrastive LearningMultimodal Memory

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  49. Coherence Under Commitment: Probing Generalization and Vacuous Memorization in LLM Logical Reasoning

    Jun 19, 2026Noor Islam S. Mohammad, Mahmudul HasanLLM Reasoning StrategiesCoherence

    Department of Computer Science, Informatics Institute, Istanbul Technical University, ˙Istanbul, Türkiye · School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia

  50. NAMESAKES: Probing Identity Memorization in Text-to-Image Models

    Jun 18, 2026Morris Alper, Vasudha Varadarajan, Moran Yanuka +2Modern Text-To-Image ModelsText-To-Image

    Carnegie Mellon University · Tel Aviv University · Cornell University

  51. Output Vector Editing for Memorization Mitigation in Large Language Models

    Jun 17, 2026Ahmad Dawar Hakimi, Kaiwei Lei, Isabelle Augenstein +1Large Language Model MemoryMemorization

    Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich, Germany · Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark · 3Munich Center for Machine Learning, Germany +1

  52. What Does the Weight Norm Control in Grokking? Logit-Scale Mediation under Cross-Entropy

    Jun 16, 2026Truong Xuan KhanhGrokkingWeight Decay

    H&K Research Studio, Clevix LLC · Hanoi, Vietnam

  53. On the Memorization Behavior of LLMs in Generative Recommendation: Observations, Implications, and Training Strategies

    Jun 15, 2026Sunwoo Kim, Sunkyung Lee, Clark Mingxuan Ju +5Sequential RecommendationLarge Language Model Memory

    1KAIST · 2Sungkyunkwan University · 3Snap Inc.

  54. Detecting Functional Memorization in Code Language Models

    Jun 11, 2026Matthieu Meeus, Anil Ramakrishna, Matthew Grange +2Memorization

    Meta · Imperial College London

  55. MARD: Mirror-Augmented Reasoning Distillation for Mechanism-Level Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction

    Jun 10, 2026Mohammadreza Riyazat, Vian Lelo, Rameen Jafri +2Drug-Drug InteractionsPharmacokinetics

    University of Guelph, Canada · York University, Canada · Vector Institute, Canada

  56. Reasoning or Memorization? Direction-Aware Diversity Exploration in LLM Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 9, 2026Jiangnan Xia, Yucheng Shi, Yu Yang +3Large Language Model Reinforcement LearningMemorization

    University of Georgia · Tencent AI Lab · The Education University of Hong Kong +1

  57. A Controlled Audit of Pretraining Contamination in Public Medical Vision-Language Benchmarks

    Jun 8, 2026Bruce Changlong Xu, Lan Wu, Alexander RyuMedical Vision-Language ModelsMedical Visual Question Answering

    Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA · University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA · Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA

  58. Deployment-Time Memorization in Foundation-Model Agents

    Jun 8, 2026Lei, Chen, Guilin Zhang +8MemorizationPost-Deployment Adaptation

    Rachel

  59. Clinically Grounded Privacy Evaluation of Medical LMs

    Jun 8, 2026Sasha Ronaghi, Sana Tonekaboni, Lena Stempfle +6Data LeakagePrivacy

    1Stanford University · 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 3American Board of Family Medicine

  60. A Theoretical Analysis of Memory and Overfitting Phenomena in Stochastic Interpolation Models

    Jun 7, 2026Yunchen Li, Shaohui Lin, Zhou YuStochastic InterpolantsOverfitting

    East China Normal University