arXiv:2608. 04678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Papers 1-2 of the Kathleen series showed that a byte-level, attention-free architecture built from a wavetable encoder and multi-scale reverberant state can match strong baselines on classification at ~450-700K parameters, without pretraining.
By George Fountzoulas
arXiv:2606. 18587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoder-only Transformers compute attention over the KV cache of preceding tokens.
By Zhiyuan Wang, Xuan Luo, Sirui Zeng, Xifeng Yan
arXiv:2607. 19368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-prompt inference remains expensive because prefill attention scales quadratically with sequence length.
By Ali Mahdavi, Azaseh Zamanifar, Amirfarhad Farhadi, Omid Kashefi
arXiv:2606. 27748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer models rely on attention mechanism to capture long-range dependencies but suffer from quadratic complexity, limiting their scalability to long sequences.
By Haoran Zhang, Feng Zhou
arXiv:2606. 08327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard transformers apply self-attention uniformly at every layer and token, regardless of whether the input requires dynamic cross-token interaction.
By Prateek Kumar Sikdar
arXiv:2607. 20524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mean cross-positional attention degradation is widely reported in transformer interpretability, yet whether it causally limits contextual retrieval remains untested.
By Sagar Dangal, Manoj Shakya