arXiv Machine Learning By Yilun Kuang, Noah Amsel, Sanae Lotfi, Shikai Qiu, Andres Potapczynski, Andrew Gordon Wilson

Customizing the Inductive Biases of Softmax Attention using Structured Matrices

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arXiv:2509. 07963v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The core component of attention is the scoring function, which transforms the inputs into low-dimensional queries and keys and takes the dot product of each pair.

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Threshold Differential Attention for Sink-Free, Ultra-Sparse, and Non-Dispersive Language Modeling

arXiv:2601. 12145v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Softmax attention struggles with long contexts due to structural limitations: the strict sum-to-one constraint forces attention sinks on irrelevant tokens, and probability mass disperses as sequence lengths increase.

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