arXiv:2606. 03979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The past few decades have witnessed significant advances in the design of machine learning algorithms, from early studies on task-specific shallow models to more general deep Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Ali Behrouz, Farnoosh Hashemi, Vahab Mirrokni
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: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. 00732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning long-range non-stationary temporal patterns remains a core challenge for modern sequence models, particularly in strict streaming settings.
By Jayanta Dey, Shikhar Srivastava, Itamar Lerner, Christopher Kanan, Dhireesha Kudithipudi
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:2606. 11634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid progress of reasoning and agentic large language models (LLMs) has increased the demand for long-context inference, but self-attention (SA) scales quadratically with context length.
By Kai Liu, Peijie Dong, Xinchen Xie, Jianfei Gao, Qipeng Guo, Xiaowen Chu, Shaoting Zhang, Kai Chen
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:2511. 05963v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers replace recurrence with a memory that grows with sequence length and self-attention that enables ad-hoc lookups over past tokens.
By Jayden Teoh, Manan Tomar, Kwangjun Ahn, Edward S. Hu, Tim Pearce, Pratyusha Sharma, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Riashat Islam, Alex Lamb, John Langford
arXiv:2604. 03444v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work has demonstrated the potential of non-transformer language models, especially linear recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and hybrid models that mix recurrence and attention.
By William Merrill, Yanhong Li, Tyler Romero, Anej Svete, Caia Costello, Pradeep Dasigi, Dirk Groeneveld, David Heineman, Bailey Kuehl, Nathan Lambert, Chuan Li, Kyle Lo, Saumya Malik, DJ Matusz, Benjamin Minixhofer, Jacob Morrison, Luca Soldaini, Finbarr Timbers, Pete Walsh, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Ashish Sabharwal
arXiv:2601. 07372v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales capacity via conditional computation, Transformers lack a native primitive for knowledge lookup, forcing them to inefficiently simulate retrieval through computation.
By Xin Cheng, Rui Tian, Wangding Zeng, Damai Dai, Qinyu Chen, Bingxuan Wang, Zhenda Xie, Kezhao Huang, Xingkai Yu, Chengqi Deng, Shangyan Zhou, Chenggang Zhao, Zhewen Hao, Yukun Li, Han Zhang, Zhengyan Zhang, Yixu Wei, M. Y Xu, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Wenfeng Liang
arXiv:2606. 16360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting improves reasoning in large language models (LLMs) by externalizing intermediate computation as discrete text tokens, but this textual interface also introduces redundancy and inference overhead.
By Hanyu Lin, Min Cai, Jiawei Wen, Haodi Zhang
arXiv:2606. 17803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models achieve strong reasoning performance by scaling inference-time compute, yet remain fundamentally stateless, discarding the rich, self-produced reasoning traces generated during this process.
By Vaggelis Dorovatas, Nancy Kalaj, Rahaf Aljundi