Long-sequence memory tracking places two opposing demands on a recurrent state: near-lossless retention of stored bindings over long horizons, and active overwriting of stale ones. In our diagnostic suite, the strongest efficient baselines tend to solve only one side well.
arXiv:2607. 21000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-sequence memory tracking places two opposing demands on a recurrent state: near-lossless retention of stored bindings over long horizons, and active overwriting of stale ones.
By Hyuk Lim, Seunghyun Yoon
arXiv:2608. 14691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequence models are conventionally distinguished by their backbone, the mechanism that routes information across positions, such as attention or recurrence.
By Ahmed Nebli, Hadi Saadatdoorabi, Christopher Keibel, Kevin Yam
arXiv:2607. 01394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Wiola, a fully original Small Language Model (SLM) architecture built from first principles, sharing no structural lineage with any existing model family including GPT, LLaMA, Mistral, or Falcon.
By Aryuemaan Kumar Chowdhury, Afreen Shaik, Yaparla Bhargavi, Brahma Kumar
The paper introduces an input‑dependent readout phase for ResonatorLM, a resonant sequence model that traditionally uses a fixed phase per head to read memory. By making the phase a function of the current token, the authors add input dependence to the read‑only operation while preserving the exact convolutional path and adding only 0.2 % more parameters. Experiments on 6 M‑parameter character‑level models show that this modification matches the original performance at the training length and dramatically improves generalisation to longer sequences, reducing perplexity from 12.81 to 3.76 when trained on 256 tokens and tested on 1024 tokens.
By Shivesh Rane
arXiv:2609. 22415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex-valued Transformers have inherited softmax attention over the raw complex inner product.
By Leona Hioki
The paper introduces LatentPort, a method that allows a language model to transfer its live memory to another model without requiring the receiver to reread the context. Experiments on a Qwen3.5 4B-to-9B sibling pair show that adding a Gated DeltaNet (GDN) persistent-state package reduces negative log‑likelihood by 0.747 nats/token and improves performance across 64 PG19 documents. The study also demonstrates that direct recurrent and convolution reuse outperforms learned GDN maps, and a 434,176‑parameter correction further narrows the performance gap to the native 9B model.
By Simon P. Villani
We present Wiola, a fully original Small Language Model (SLM) architecture built from first principles, sharing no structural lineage with any existing model family including GPT, LLaMA, Mistral, or Falcon. Wiola introduces five independently novel components: (i) Spiral Rotary Positional Encoding (SRPE), which embeds token positions on a three-dimensional helical manifold combining absolute, relative, and hierarchical positional signals; (ii) Gated Cross-Layer Attention (GCLA), providing each decoder layer with soft cross-attention access to compressed summaries of two preceding layers for inter-layer coherence; (iii) Adaptive Token Merging (ATM), which dynamically merges se mantically redundant adjacent tokens in middle network layers to reduce attention complexity without information loss; (iv) Dual Stream Feed-Forward (DSFF), replacing the conventional MLP with two parallel streams fused by a learned per-dimension gate; and (v) WiolaRMSNorm, a modified normalisation introducing a per-dimension learned offset vector that prevents representation collapse.
arXiv:2607. 26523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce CMP (Cognitive Memory Primitive), a continual-learning architecture that repre?
By Ashmith Atmuri, Yashaswini Rao Bhogarajula
arXiv:2602. 22600v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training selects for behavior, not circuitry: many weight configurations can implement the same function.
By Joshua S. Schiffman
arXiv:2606. 00382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential fine-tuning of large language models forces a choice: let the shared substrate keep learning and accept catastrophic forgetting, or freeze it after task one and foreclose cross-task refinement.
By Kiran Nayudu, Aswini Nutakki, Sai Vinay Naidu, Ashwin Shanmugasundaram
arXiv:2607. 19390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A recent report finds that orthogonalizing the mLSTM memory matrix at read time (five Newton-Schulz iterations, trained through) substantially improves noisy associative recall.
By Keston Aquino-Michaels