arXiv AI

Kalman Delta Networks: Uncertainty-aware Associative Memory

Kalman Delta Networks (KDNs) extend linear attention models by treating associative memory as a linear–Gaussian state‑space system, enabling the Kalman filter to optimally estimate both memory state and its uncertainty. Two GPU‑friendly approximations—Diagonal KDN and Isotropic KDN—use mean‑field variational inference or a single scalar uncertainty per head, respectively, to maintain tractable uncertainty recurrences during linear‑attention scans. Experiments on 750 M and 1.3 B‑parameter models show that KDN variants consistently lower perplexity and raise downstream accuracy compared to existing linear‑attention baselines.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Kalman Linear Attention: Parallel Bayesian Filtering For Efficient Language Modelling and State Tracking

arXiv:2602. 10743v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: State-space language models such as Mamba and gated linear attention (GLA) offer linear-complexity, parallelisable alternatives to transformers, but their linear state updates limit expressivity and robust state tracking.

By Vaisakh Shaj, Cameron Barker, Aidan Scannell, Andras Szecsenyi, Elliot J. Crowley, Amos Storkey
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Full-Covariance Smoothing of Bayesian Neural Networks for Online Adaptation

The paper proposes treating a neural network’s layers as time steps in a state‑space model, converting Bayesian training into a smoothing problem. By propagating Gaussian moments forward and applying a Rauch–Tung–Striebel backward pass, weight posteriors are updated in closed form without gradient iterations or replay. The authors extend prior work by introducing a cross‑covariance identity that allows full‑covariance propagation through nonlinear activations, enabling more accurate online adaptation in non‑stationary classification, dynamics learning, and vision‑language‑action policy adaptation.

By Oren Wright, Haoming Jing, Qiaoan Shen, Koichiro Niinuma, Yorie Nakahira, Jos\'e M. F. Moura
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Fast Weight Attention for Continual Learning

Fast Weight Attention for Continual Learning introduces recurrent fast‑weight memories and selective state‑space models that compress expanding context into a fixed‑size recurrent state, enabling an online learning rule for state transitions. The paper derives normalized first‑order updates for squared‑error regression and negative inner‑product objectives, presenting several variants (Falcon‑1, Falcon‑2, Falcon‑3 and their inner‑product counterparts) with recurrent, masked‑parallel, and chunk‑parallel implementations. These methods demonstrate competitive performance in language modeling and improved length extrapolation on variable‑digit addition tasks.

By Yifan Zhang, Steve Ta, Jasper Zhang, Jichen Feng, Shuzhen Li, Yongxin Zhang, Yifeng Liu, Huizhuo Yuan, Mengdi Wang, Quanquan Gu, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Advancing Intelligent Sequence Modeling: Evolution, Trade-offs, and Applications of State-Space Architectures from S4 to Mamba

arXiv:2503. 18970v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Structured State Space Models (SSMs) have become a prominent class of sequence models, developed against two long-standing difficulties: the sequential computation and gradient propagation limits of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and the quadratic time and memory cost of self-attention in Transformers.

By Shriyank Somvanshi, Md Monzurul Islam, Mahmuda Sultana Mimi, Sazzad Bin Bashar Polock, Gaurab Chhetri, Anandi Dutta, Amir Rafe, Subasish Das
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

DAMP: Decay-Aware Mixed-Precision Recurrent-State Quantization

The paper introduces DAMP, a decay‑aware mixed‑precision quantization scheme for recurrent‑state representations in GDN and KDA language models. By identifying high‑risk channels through quantization‑error energy and decay persistence, DAMP stores these channels at higher precision while compressing the rest to INT8, achieving a 9.9‑bit average precision. Experiments on Qwen3.6‑35B and Kimi‑Linear‑48B show a 69.1% reduction in recurrent‑state storage, up to 2.01× faster state‑update kernels, and up to 10.9% lower full‑model TPOT while preserving accuracy close to the FP32 baseline.

By Tao Zhang, Jianchao Tan, Pingwei Sun, Yanqi Yu, Zixu Jiang, Yuchen Xie, Xunliang Cai, Ziqian Zeng