arXiv AI By Soohyeong Shin, Yeongwook Yang

Forget Attention: Importance-Aware Attention Is All You Need

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arXiv:2606. 02332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combining attention's global retrieval with the sequential importance signal of state space models (SSMs) is the open challenge of hybrid language modeling.

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arXiv AI
Jun 10

Blurry Window Attention

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 Machine Learning
Aug 31

InfoMamba: An Attention-Free Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model

InfoMamba is an attention‑free hybrid model that combines a minimal‑bandwidth global interface with a selective recurrent stream. The architecture replaces token‑level self‑attention with a concept bottleneck linear filtering layer and integrates it via an information‑maximizing fusion (IMF) that injects global context into the state‑space dynamics. Experiments across classification, dense prediction, and non‑vision tasks show that InfoMamba outperforms strong Transformer and SSM baselines while maintaining near‑linear scaling and competitive accuracy‑efficiency trade‑offs.

By Youjin Wang, Jiaqiao Zhao, Rong Fu, Run Zhou, Ruizhe Zhang, Jiani Liang, Suisuai Cao, Feng Zhou