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. 02347v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recurrent linear attention models (RLAs) such as Mamba offer efficient linear-time sequence modeling as an alternative to Transformers, yet their fixed-capacity recurrent states limit long-sequence modeling.
By Qinwen Wang, Jieping Luo, Aoxiang Qin, Ruoyu Zhao, Jianxiong Tang, Wei Zhang, Zhichao Lu, Luziwei Leng
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
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:2607. 01523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recurrent memory agents extend LLMs to arbitrarily long contexts by iteratively consolidating input into a fixed-size memory window.
By Jiatong Li, Samuel Yeh, Sharon Li
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:2607. 25357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context recall in linear-time sequence models highlights a tradeoff in how they write to memory.
By Arshia Afzal, Aviv Bick, Eric P. Xing, Volkan Cevher, Albert Gu
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:2510. 09379v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While softmax attention drives state-of-the-art performance in sequence modeling, its quadratic complexity motivates linear alternatives such as state space models (SSMs).
By Rahel Rickenbach, Jelena Trisovic, Alexandre Didier, Jerome Sieber, Melanie N. Zeilinger
arXiv:2608. 03463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory is essential for LLM-based agents to sustain interactions and reliably leverage distant history.
By Yuxin Liao, Le Wu, Min Hou, Hao Liu, Han Wu, Zishu Wang
arXiv:2607. 22575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human episodic memory supports the retrieval of experiences that unfold over extended timescales, yet the computational mechanisms underlying this ability remain debated due to the limited mechanistic accessibility in long-term memory experiments in humans.
By Mathis Pink, Vy Ai Vo, Qinyuan Wu, Jianing Mu, Javier Turek, Uri Hasson, Kenneth A. Norman, Sebastian Michelmann, Alexander Huth, Mariya Toneva
arXiv:2607. 02303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear-attention and state-space language models compress the prefix into a fixed-size recurrent state, yielding O(1) memory at the cost of a lossy exact memory: when many key--value associations compete, earlier facts are overwritten and needle recall degrades.
By Wanyun Cui