arXiv:2607. 02980v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling modern large language models (LLMs) to long contexts is limited by the quadratic computation cost, and poor length extrapolation of dense attention.
By Xiang Hu, Xinyu Wei, Hao Gu, Minshen Zhang, Tian Liang, Huayang Li, Lei Zhu, Yan Wang, Sirui Han, Yushi Bai, Kewei Tu, Haitao Mi, Leo Liang
arXiv:2606. 13115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced open-domain dialogue systems, maintaining long-term consistency remains a challenge due to inherent limitations in long-context reasoning and the inefficiency of processing extensive raw text.
By Minjun Choi, Yoonjin Jang, Sangwon Youn, Youngjoong Ko
arXiv:2602. 09075v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In-Context Learning (ICL) in transformers acts as an online associative memory and is believed to underpin their high performance on complex sequence processing tasks.
By Djohan Bonnet, Jamie Lohoff, Jan Finkbeiner, Elidona Skhikerujah, Emre Neftci
arXiv:2608. 02032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language models are built primarily from Transformers, recurrent models, and their hybrid architectures.
By Yixiao Qian, Song Chen, Pengkai Wang, Jiaxu Liu, Shengze Cai, Chao Xu
arXiv:2607. 11614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extending the context length of large language models (LLMs) is critical for many real-world applications, yet standard transformers remain constrained by quadratic compute and linear memory scaling.
By Gleb Kuzmin, Ivan Rodkin, Aydar Bulatov, Yuri Kuratov, Lyudmila Rvanova, Mikhail Katkov, Ilia Sochenkov, Misha Tsodyks, Timothy Baldwin, Mikhail Burtsev, Artem Shelmanov
arXiv:2608. 16844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The quadratic cost of attention-based sequence models for long contexts has motivated a growing line of research on memory-based models that can compress context into a compact state.
By Reza Bayat, Ali Behrouz, Vahab Mirrokni, Aaron Courville
arXiv:2606. 10650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The scalability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to long contexts is fundamentally constrained by the quadratic complexity of standard attention, motivating the adoption of linear attention mechanisms with sub-quadratic cost.
By Xin Wang, Hui Shen, Boyuan Zheng, Xueshen Liu, Minkyoung Cho, Zhongwei Wan, Zesen Zhao, Zhuoqing Mao, Shen Yan, Mi Zhang
Modern language models are built primarily from Transformers, recurrent models, and their hybrid architectures. Transformers rely on token-level attention memories, while recurrent models such as state space models (SSMs) and linear attention maintain compact recurrent states.
arXiv:2605. 08696v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Over the last two decades, language modeling has experienced a shift from the use of predominantly recurrent architectures that process tokens sequentially during training and inference to non-recurrent models that process sequence elements in parallel during training, which results in greater training efficiency and stability at the expense of lower inference throughput.
By Benjamin L. Badger
arXiv:2606. 28876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language models often conflate two different goals: compressing history into an efficient state, and maintaining reliable long-term memory.
By Junyi Zou, Avrova Donz
arXiv:2607. 19358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in long chain-of-thought reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 have led to increasingly longer inference context lengths under the test-time scaling paradigm.
By Yu Zhao, Zekun Zhang, Fan Jiang, Bo Zeng, Linlong Xu, Shimin Shan, Yu Liu, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo
arXiv:2606. 12364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers dominate modern sequence modeling, but their quadratic attention incurs substantial computational cost.
By Anamaria-Roberta Hartl, Levente Z\'olyomi, David Stap, Pieter-Jan Hoedt, Niklas Schmidinger, Lukas Hauzenberger, Sebastian B\"ock, G\"unter Klambauer, Sepp Hochreiter