arXiv Machine Learning

Pretraining Recurrent Networks without Recurrence

arXiv:2606. 06479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) requires assigning credit across long sequences of computations.

arXiv AI
Jun 4

MesaNet: Sequence Modeling by Locally Optimal Test-Time Training

arXiv:2506. 05233v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sequence modeling is currently dominated by causal transformer architectures that use softmax self-attention.

By Johannes von Oswald, Nino Scherrer, Seijin Kobayashi, Luca Versari, Songlin Yang, Sarthak Mittal, Maximilian Schlegel, Kaitlin Maile, Yanick Schimpf, Oliver Sieberling, Alexander Meulemans, Rif A. Saurous, Guillaume Lajoie, Charlotte Frenkel, Razvan Pascanu, Blaise Ag\"uera y Arcas, Jo\~ao Sacramento
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

Maglev: Sliding Recurrent Memory

arXiv:2608. 02870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce \ours{}, a recurrent Transformer architecture with fixed-size memory that generalizes sliding-window attention while remaining parallelizable during training.

By Bo Liu, Qiang Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

MinMax Recurrent Neural Cascades

arXiv:2605. 06384v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce MinMax Recurrent Neural Cascades (MinMax RNCs), a class of recurrent neural networks built from a novel form of recurrence over the MinMax algebra.

By Alessandro Ronca
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 8

Learning Length-Extrapolatable Recurrent Models

The paper investigates why recurrent models often fail to generalize beyond their training horizon, noting that vanishing or exploding gradients are not the sole cause. It introduces the concept of state credit—the influence of future losses on earlier recurrent states—and proposes Credit Stabilization through Time (CST), a method that rescales this signal during backpropagation to stabilize its norm. Experiments on synthetic and real data show that CST enables models to perform well up to 128 times longer than their training length.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Structured Recurrent Mixers for Massively Parallelized Sequence Generation

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 AI
2d ago

Decision Titan: Test-Time Training for Long-Term Memory in Offline Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces Decision Titan, a variant of the Decision Transformer that incorporates Test‑Time Training (TTT) layers to store episodic memories in network parameters. It evaluates this architecture on the X‑Maze environment, showing that Decision Titan can learn long‑term dependencies up to 20 times longer than its context window and generalise to sequences 1.7 times longer than the training data. The study also finds that temporal generalisation depends on the choice of time embeddings and that the ability to learn long‑term dependencies hinges on how relevant information is encoded.

By Jude Waide, Robert Lieck