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Most approaches to long-context processing increase the complexity of the transformer's internal architecture by integrating mechanisms such as recurrence or auxiliary memory modules. In this work, we introduce an alternative approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Billy Dickson , Zoran Tiganj

We introduce the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a new byte-level LLM architecture that, for the first time, matches tokenization-based LLM performance at scale with significant improvements in inference efficiency and robustness. BLT…

Real-world sequential signals, such as audio or video, contain critical information that is often embedded within long periods of silence or noise. While recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are designed to process such data efficiently, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Bojian Yin , Shurong Wang , Haoyu Tan , Sander Bohte , Federico Corradi , Guoqi Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) based on autoregressive, decoder-only Transformers generate text one token at a time, where a token represents a discrete unit of text. As each newly produced token is appended to the partial output sequence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Dimitrios Kafetzis , Ramin Khalili , Iordanis Koutsopoulos

We introduce multiplicative LSTM (mLSTM), a recurrent neural network architecture for sequence modelling that combines the long short-term memory (LSTM) and multiplicative recurrent neural network architectures. mLSTM is characterised by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Ben Krause , Liang Lu , Iain Murray , Steve Renals

Learning to solve sequential tasks with recurrent models requires the ability to memorize long sequences and to extract task-relevant features from them. In this paper, we study the memorization subtask from the point of view of the design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Antonio Carta , Alessandro Sperduti , Davide Bacciu

Looped transformers apply a shared block multiple times and have emerged as a parameter-efficient route to scaling compute in language models. However, at fixed FLOPs a looped model has strictly less capacity than a baseline transformer. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Markus Frey , Behzad Shomali , Joachim Koehler , Mehdi Ali

We present Key-Value Means ("KVM"), a novel block-recurrence for attention that can accommodate either fixed-size or growing state. Equipping a strong transformer baseline with fixed-size KVM attention layers yields a strong $O(N)$ chunked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Daniel Goldstein , Eugene Cheah

Accelerating magnetic resonance image (MRI) reconstruction process is a challenging ill-posed inverse problem due to the excessive under-sampling operation in k-space. In this paper, we propose a recurrent transformer model, namely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Pengfei Guo , Yiqun Mei , Jinyuan Zhou , Shanshan Jiang , Vishal M. Patel

Recurrent Networks are one of the most powerful and promising artificial neural network algorithms to processing the sequential data such as natural languages, sound, time series data. Unlike traditional feed-forward network, Recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Pushparaja Murugan

Recurrent neural networks have flourished in many areas. Consequently, we can see new RNN cells being developed continuously, usually by creating or using gates in a new, original way. But what if we told you that gates in RNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ronalds Zakovskis , Andis Draguns , Eliza Gaile , Emils Ozolins , Karlis Freivalds

Deep Learning architectures, and in particular Transformers, are conventionally viewed as a composition of layers. These layers are actually often obtained as the sum of two contributions: a residual path that copies the input and the…

Looped Transformers have emerged as an efficient and powerful class of models for reasoning in the language domain. Recent studies show that these models achieve strong performance on algorithmic and reasoning tasks, suggesting that looped…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ahmadreza Jeddi , Marco Ciccone , Babak Taati

The recurrent network architecture is a widely used model in sequence modeling, but its serial dependency hinders the computation parallelization, which makes the operation inefficient. The same problem was encountered in serial adder at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Haowei Jiang , Feiwei Qin , Jin Cao , Yong Peng , Yanli Shao

Sequential models, such as Recurrent Neural Networks and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations, have long suffered from slow training due to their inherent sequential nature. For many years this bottleneck has persisted, as many thought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yi Heng Lim , Qi Zhu , Joshua Selfridge , Muhammad Firmansyah Kasim

Deep neural networks have been successful in many reinforcement learning settings. However, compared to human learners they are overly data hungry. To build a sample-efficient world model, we apply a transformer to real-world episodes in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jan Robine , Marc Höftmann , Tobias Uelwer , Stefan Harmeling

We introduce a neural network architecture that logarithmically reduces the number of self-rehearsal steps in the generative rehearsal of continually learned models. In continual learning (CL), training samples come in subsequent tasks, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Wojciech Masarczyk , Paweł Wawrzyński , Daniel Marczak , Kamil Deja , Tomasz Trzciński

Transformers encode structure in sequences via an expanding contextual history. However, their purely feedforward architecture fundamentally limits dynamic state tracking. State tracking -- the iterative updating of latent variables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Michael C. Mozer , Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Rosanne Liu

Transformer models have demonstrated high accuracy in numerous applications but have high complexity and lack sequential processing capability making them ill-suited for many streaming applications at the edge where devices are heavily…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Zeyu Liu , Gourav Datta , Anni Li , Peter Anthony Beerel

The Transformer self-attention network has recently shown promising performance as an alternative to recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. However, the Transformer has a drawback in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Emiru Tsunoo , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Toshiyuki Kumakura , Shinji Watanabe