Solving the Clive Wearing Problem: One-Shot Episodic Memory for Frozen Transformers

Tommi Niemi / Rotko Networks

Hidden-state episodic memory for frozen transformers. No gradients.
Teach via one forward pass, recall via cosine similarity + logit injection.
200-line Python reproduction included.

pip install transformers torch numpy && python python/epimem.py

models/tokenizer/chat_template.jinja

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+{%- if tools %}
+    {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' }}
+    {%- if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' %}
+        {{- messages[0]['content'] }}
+    {%- else %}
+        {{- 'You are a helpful assistant.' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+    {{- "\n\n# Tools\n\nYou may call one or more functions to assist with the user query.\n\nYou are provided with function signatures within <tools></tools> XML tags:\n<tools>" }}
+    {%- for tool in tools %}
+        {{- "\n" }}
+        {{- tool | tojson }}
+    {%- endfor %}
+    {{- "\n</tools>\n\nFor each function call, return a json object with function name and arguments within <tool_call></tool_call> XML tags:\n<tool_call>\n{\"name\": <function-name>, \"arguments\": <args-json-object>}\n</tool_call><|im_end|>\n" }}
+{%- else %}
+    {%- if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' + messages[0]['content'] + '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- else %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endif %}
+{%- for message in messages %}
+    {%- if (message.role == "user") or (message.role == "system" and not loop.first) or (message.role == "assistant" and not message.tool_calls) %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + message.content + '<|im_end|>' + '\n' }}
+    {%- elif message.role == "assistant" %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role }}
+        {%- if message.content %}
+            {{- '\n' + message.content }}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {%- for tool_call in message.tool_calls %}
+            {%- if tool_call.function is defined %}
+                {%- set tool_call = tool_call.function %}
+            {%- endif %}
+            {{- '\n<tool_call>\n{"name": "' }}
+            {{- tool_call.name }}
+            {{- '", "arguments": ' }}
+            {{- tool_call.arguments | tojson }}
+            {{- '}\n</tool_call>' }}
+        {%- endfor %}
+        {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- elif message.role == "tool" %}
+        {%- if (loop.index0 == 0) or (messages[loop.index0 - 1].role != "tool") %}
+            {{- '<|im_start|>user' }}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {{- '\n<tool_response>\n' }}
+        {{- message.content }}
+        {{- '\n</tool_response>' }}
+        {%- if loop.last or (messages[loop.index0 + 1].role != "tool") %}
+            {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+        {%- endif %}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endfor %}
+{%- if add_generation_prompt %}
+    {{- '<|im_start|>assistant\n' }}
+{%- endif %}

models/tokenizer/tokenizer_config.json

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+{
+  "add_prefix_space": false,
+  "backend": "tokenizers",
+  "bos_token": null,
+  "clean_up_tokenization_spaces": false,
+  "eos_token": "<|endoftext|>",
+  "errors": "replace",
+  "extra_special_tokens": [
+    "<|im_start|>",
+    "<|im_end|>",
+    "<|object_ref_start|>",
+    "<|object_ref_end|>",
+    "<|box_start|>",
+    "<|box_end|>",
+    "<|quad_start|>",
+    "<|quad_end|>",
+    "<|vision_start|>",
+    "<|vision_end|>",
+    "<|vision_pad|>",
+    "<|image_pad|>",
+    "<|video_pad|>"
+  ],
+  "is_local": false,
+  "model_max_length": 131072,
+  "pad_token": "<|endoftext|>",
+  "split_special_tokens": false,
+  "tokenizer_class": "Qwen2Tokenizer",
+  "unk_token": null
+}