MANAR: Memory-augmented Attention with Navigational Abstract Conceptual Representation
arXiv Preprint Archive March 19, 2026 Zuher Jahshan, Ben Ben Ishay, Leonid Yavits
MANAR (Memory-augmented Attention with Navigational Abstract Conceptual Representation), contextualization layer generalizes standard multi-head attention (MHA) by instantiating the principles of Global Workspace Theory (GWT). While MHA enables unconstrained all-to-all communication, it lacks the functional bottleneck and global integration mechanisms hypothesized in cognitive models of...