arXiv:2608. 19920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A lot of prior work addressed key-value (KV) cache selection and compression by sparse attention to enable long-context inference for transformer language models without excessive hardware budgets.
By Matthias Seeger, Zeyu Zhang, Vihang Patil, Konstantinos Benidis, Sebastian Schelter
arXiv:2608. 15533v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear attention models eliminate the quadratic prefix computation and context-growing KV cache of softmax attention by replacing pairwise token interactions with recurrent state updates.
By Junqing Lin, Jingwei Sun, Guangzhong Sun
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
A lot of prior work addressed key-value (KV) cache selection and compression by sparse attention to enable long-context inference for transformer language models without excessive hardware budgets. We provide a new method for fine-tuning models with sparse attention.
arXiv:2607. 07953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-attention lets each token retrieve information from the full context, but its quadratic cost in sequence length limits training and inference at long context.
By Tommaso Cerruti, Tim Rieder, George Rowlands, Lingfeng Jin, Imanol Schlag
arXiv:2606. 09862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Softmax Attention operation in Transformer language models has a quadratic complexity in the sequence length and a growing state size in the form of KV cache, which becomes a bottleneck in long context scenarios.
By Axel Laborieux, Christos Sourmpis, Juan Gabriel Kostelec, Qinghai Guo
arXiv:2609.24417v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Despite advances in long-context inference, large language models (LLMs) remain fundamentally limited by the key-value (KV) caching mechanisms that are...
By Qiuhao Zeng, Jerry Huang, Peng Lu, Ruiyi Fang, Gezheng Xu, Zihao Jing, Yufei Cui, Charles Ling, Gang Niu, Boyu Wang
arXiv:2609.36529v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) compress the historical context into a memory state of fixed size, thus allowing for constant-time inference. The memo...
By Oliver Sieberling, Bharat Runwal, David Jin, Ryan Chin, Rameswar Panda, Yoon Kim
arXiv:2608.30439v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Inference with transformer-based large language models (LLMs) is often limited by the memory-bound KV cache and quadratic attention cost. State-space...
By Simon Richter, Ruhai Lin, Jason Yik, Taylor Kergan, Rui-Jie Zhu, Farshad Moradi, Jason Eshraghian
arXiv:2505. 23666v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The per-token cost of transformer inference scales with context length, preventing its application to lifelong in-context learning.
By Luke McDermott, Robert W. Heath Jr., Rahul Parhi
arXiv:2604.19021v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Linear attention mechanisms have emerged as promising alternatives to softmax attention, offering linear-time complexity during inference. Recent a...
By Pingwei Sun, Yuxuan Hu, Jianchao Tan, Xue Wang, Jiaqi Zhang, Yifan Lu, Yerui Sun, Yuchen Xie, Xunliang Cai
arXiv:2606. 25156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language models based on softmax scaled-dot-product attention are constrained by their training sequence length: as the key-value sequence grows, softmax probability mass can dilute across a wider distribution, inducing activation shift and long-context performance collapse.
By Habibullah Akbar