arXiv Computation and Language

Selective State-Space Adaptation and Retrieval for Language Model Reasoning

The paper introduces a family of adapters that enhance language model reasoning by adding selective state-space control at token and context levels. The token-level MaLoRA makes the adapter’s scaling factor dynamic and recurrent, improving over static low‑rank adaptation. The context-level MaRA tracks cross‑segment reasoning state and retrieves relevant segments, outperforming an eight‑billion‑parameter dense retriever and boosting reasoning accuracy by an average of +6.4 F1 over LoRA.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

What Do Tabular Foundation Models Compute In Context? In-Situ Representation Refinement through Attention-Gated Updates

The paper introduces RefineICL, an attention‑gated, feed‑forward‑network‑free framework that refines representations in situ for tabular foundation models. By using support labels to guide episode‑specific updates, the method transfers learned corrections to unlabeled queries without altering model parameters, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on AMLB29 and TabArena benchmarks. Experiments and internal interventions demonstrate that intermediate support updates are essential for constructing task‑specific predictors in context.

By Tian Zhou, Beverly Jin, Linxiao Yang, Xue Wang, Wenwei Wang, Bingqing Peng, Mengni Ye, Jinjie Gu, Liang Sun
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

ReContext: Recursive Evidence Replay as LLM Harness for Long-Context Reasoning

Understanding and reasoning over long contexts has become a key requirement for deploying large language models (LLMs) in realistic applications. Although recent LLMs support increasingly long context windows, they often fail to use relevant evidence that is already present in the input, revealing a gap between context access and effective context utilization.

arXiv AI
Oct 15

History Replays Itself: Unleashing Long-Context Capability in Linear Attention

arXiv:2610.15715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear attention promises the efficiency needed for long-context language modelling, yet its fixed-size recurrent state must simultaneously support ong...

By Li Nanbo, Firas Laakom, Yilan Zhang, Piotr Pi\k{e}kos, Yimeng Chen, Liangyu Wang, Yifan Xu, Mateusz Ostaszewski, Dandan Guo, Wenyi Wang, Yanning Dai, Yuhui Wang, J\"{u}rgen Schmidhuber
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

Where to Look and What to Use: Retrieve-Localize-Generate for Long-Term Conversational Memory Question Answering

arXiv:2609.07093v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to answer questions by accessing external knowledge and has been widely a...

By Yifan Wang, Xinkui Lin, Yongxiu Xu, Shen Gao, Ruochen Yang, Kun Huang, Yubin Wang, Jie Wu, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Shang
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 15

Beyond State Capacity: Why Retrieval Breaks in Mamba

The paper investigates why Mamba models underperform Transformers on in-context retrieval tasks. It challenges the common belief that Mamba’s fixed-size recurrent state limits retrieval, showing that even when the query precedes the context, Mamba still lags behind Transformers. The study reveals that Mamba’s selection gates can strongly influence output, but they rely on relevance signals that only emerge gradually with depth, causing a retrieval bottleneck beyond state capacity.

By Nir Yarden, Amit Ben-Artzy, Roy Schwartz