Conditional Memory — 2 Technical Articles

Jan 13, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How Conditional Memory (Engram) Boosts Large Language Models Beyond MoE

DeepSeek's new paper introduces a conditional memory mechanism called Engram that complements Mixture‑of‑Experts, providing O(1) lookup, improving knowledge retrieval, reasoning, and long‑context performance while scaling efficiently on the same FLOPs budget.

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How Conditional Memory (Engram) Boosts Large Language Models Beyond MoE

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Jan 13, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How Engram’s Conditional Memory Redefines Sparsity in Large Language Models

DeepSeek’s newly released Engram module introduces a conditional memory mechanism that leverages O(1) N‑gram lookup to create a new sparsity axis for large language models, reducing early‑layer compute, improving inference efficiency, and delivering notable performance gains across reasoning and knowledge tasks, as demonstrated by extensive experiments on 27‑billion‑parameter models.

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How Engram’s Conditional Memory Redefines Sparsity in Large Language Models