Associative Memory
Domain: Memory & State
🎯 Motivation
Memories retrieved by association/similarity rather than by exact key or position. ‘Reminds me of…’ retrieval.
📋 Concrete Example
User mentions recursion. Agent retrieves memories associated with recursion: the nesting doll analogy used last week, the factorial example, the student’s question about infinite loops. Associative retrieval by topic.
🔗 Analogy
Smell of cookies reminding you of grandma - the smell (query) triggers memories of grandma (associative retrieval). You did not search by date or name; the association triggered the memory. Associative memory works by similarity.