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Inhibitory Cross-Talk Enables Functional Lateralization in Attention-Coupled Latent Memory

Researchers developed a memory-augmented transformer that uses attention for retrieval, consolidation, and write-back operations, with lateralized memory banks connected through inhibitory cross-talk. The inhibitory coupling mechanism enables functional specialization between memory banks, achieving superior performance on episodic recall tasks while maintaining rule-based prediction capabilities.