Publications

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Name "Tergel Molom-Ochir" is shown in bold.

Selected First-Author Work

Associative memory, in-memory computing, and hardware for search and reasoning.

1. T. Molom-Ochir, B. F. Morris III, Y. He, A. Gajjar, G. Pedretti, H. Li, Y. Chen, J. Ignowski, A. Natarajan.
   "Multi-primitive in-memory computing for Monte Carlo tree search."
   arXiv:2607.22869, 2026.
   [Project] [Preprint]

2. T. Molom-Ochir, B. F. Morris, M. Horton, C. Wei, C. Guo, B. Taylor, P. Liu, S. X. Wang, D. Fan, H. Li, Y. Chen.
   "CAMformer: Binary Associative Memory Is All You Need."
   IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, pp. 1–14, 2026.
   [Project] [DOI] [Preprint]

3. T. Molom-Ochir, B. Taylor, H. Li, Y. Chen.
   "Advancements in Content-Addressable Memory (CAM) Circuits: State-of-the-Art, Applications, and Future Directions in the AI Domain."
   IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 72, no. 8, pp. 3971–3982, 2025.
   [DOI]

4. T. Molom-Ochir, B. Taylor, H. Li, Y. Chen.
   "MonoSparse-CAM: Efficient Tree Model Processing via Monotonicity and Sparsity in CAMs."
   2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1–5, 2025.
   [Project] [DOI] [Preprint]

5. T. Molom-Ochir, N. Saxena, J. Kim, Y. Chen, Z. Wang, M. Pajic, H. Li.
   "Efficient Neuro-Symbolic Policy using In-Memory Computing."
   Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuro-symbolic Systems, PMLR 288, pp. 384–395, 2025.
   [Proceedings]

Collaborative Publications

Hardware and in-memory computing.

1. V. Ravichandran, Y. Huang, B. Flannery, T. Molom-Ochir, T. Maurer, S. Asapu, A. Abdel-Maksoud, N. Heermance, R. Yoo, J. Tackie, W. Zhao, Y. Ling, A. Guo, J. J. Yang, Q. Xia.
   "Memristive cellular neural networks for fast in-pixel computing."
   Nature Electronics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 189–199, 2026.
   [DOI]

2. T. Kawakami, T. Molom-Ochir, X. Zhuang, J. Yang, T. Roy, H. Li, Y. Chen.
   "DirectGeMM: Eliminating the GeMV Bottleneck in Analog In-Memory Computing."
   2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 3186–3190, 2026.
   [DOI]

3. B. F. Morris III, T. Molom-Ochir, C. Zhou, Y. Chen, A. K. Jones, H. Li.
   "NP-CAM: Efficient and Scalable DNA Classification using a NoC-Partitioned CAM Architecture."
   2026 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), pp. 1–14, 2026.
   [DOI]

4. X. Yang, P. Chen, T. Molom-Ochir, Y. Chen.
   "End-to-End Transformer Acceleration Through Processing-in-Memory Architectures."
   2025 37th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), pp. 1–5, 2025.
   [DOI] [Preprint]

5. Y. Chen, C. Guo, Y. He, M. Ma, T. Molom-Ochir, N. Ramos, H. Shan, C. Wei, H. Li.
   "Circuits to Systems: Codesigning Efficient AI Hardware."
   IEEE Design & Test, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 54–62, 2025.
   [DOI]

6. M. Horton, T. Molom-Ochir, P. Liu, B. Gopal, C. Wei, C. Guo, B. Taylor, D. Fan, S. Wang, H. Li, Y. Chen.
   "Hamming Attention Distillation: Binarizing Keys and Queries for Efficient Long-Context Transformers."
   arXiv, 2025.
   [Preprint]

7. C. Guo, F. Cheng, Z. Du, J. Kiessling, J. Ku, S. Li, Z. Li, M. Ma, T. Molom-Ochir, B. Morris, H. Shan, J. Sun, Y. Wang, C. Wei, X. Wu, Y. Wu, H. F. Yang, J. Zhang, J. Zhang, Q. Zheng, G. Zhou, H. Li, Y. Chen.
   "A Survey: Collaborative Hardware and Software Design in the Era of Large Language Models."
   IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 35–57, 2025.
   [DOI] [Preprint]

Patent Applications and Invention Disclosures

• T. Molom-Ochir, A. Natarajan.
  "In-Memory Accelerator for Monte Carlo Tree Search."
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IDF-178803 (Patent Review Committee, October 2025).

Earlier Work