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State-space models (SSMs) are a class of networks for sequence learning that benefit from fixed state size and linear complexity with respect to sequence length, contrasting the quadratic scaling of typical attention mechanisms. Inspired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jared Boyer , T. Konstantin Rusch , Daniela Rus

State-space models (SSMs) are a highly expressive model class for learning patterns in time series data and for system identification. Deterministic versions of SSMs (e.g. LSTMs) proved extremely successful in modeling complex time series…

A central challenge in sequence modeling is efficiently handling tasks with extended contexts. While recent state-space models (SSMs) have made significant progress in this area, they often lack input-dependent filtering or require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Taylan Soydan , Nikola Zubić , Nico Messikommer , Siddhartha Mishra , Davide Scaramuzza

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in integrating linear state-space models (SSM) in deep neural network architectures of foundation models. This is exemplified by the recent success of Mamba, showing better performance than…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Carmen Amo Alonso , Jerome Sieber , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Sequence models based on linear state spaces (SSMs) have recently emerged as a promising choice of architecture for modeling long range dependencies across various modalities. However, they invariably rely on discretization of a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Ankit Gupta , Harsh Mehta , Jonathan Berant

State Space Models (SSMs) are efficient alternatives to traditional sequence models, excelling at processing long sequences with lower computational complexity. Their reliance on matrix multiplications makes them ideal for compute-in-memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuannuo Feng , Wenyong Zhou , Yuexi Lyu , Hanjie Liu , Zhengwu Liu , Ngai Wong , Wang Kang

Despite the promising performance of state space models (SSMs) in long sequence modeling, limitations still exist. Advanced SSMs like S5 and S6 (Mamba) in addressing non-uniform sampling, their recursive structures impede efficient SSM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Biqing Qi , Junqi Gao , Kaiyan Zhang , Dong Li , Jianxing Liu , Ligang Wu , Bowen Zhou

A proper parametrization of state transition matrices of linear state-space models (SSMs) followed by standard nonlinearities enables them to efficiently learn representations from sequential data, establishing the state-of-the-art on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ramin Hasani , Mathias Lechner , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Makram Chahine , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus

The strength of machine learning models stems from their ability to learn complex function approximations from data; however, this strength also makes training deep neural networks challenging. Notably, the complex models tend to memorize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mofassir ul Islam Arif , Mohsan Jameel , Josif Grabocka , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as powerful components for sequence modeling, enabling efficient handling of long-range dependencies via linear recurrence and convolutional computation. However, their effectiveness depends heavily on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hossein Babaei , Mel White , Richard G. Baraniuk

State-space models (SSMs) have recently attention as an efficient alternative to computationally expensive attention-based models for sequence modeling. They rely on linear recurrences to integrate information over time, enabling fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mahdi Karami , Ali Behrouz , Peilin Zhong , Razvan Pascanu , Vahab Mirrokni

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising in a bio-plausible coding for spatio-temporal information and event-driven signal processing, which is very suited for energy-efficient implementation in neuromorphic hardware. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Hanle Zheng , Yujie Wu , Lei Deng , Yifan Hu , Guoqi Li

Structured State Space Models (SSMs), which are at the heart of the recently popular Mamba architecture, are powerful tools for sequence modeling. However, their theoretical foundation relies on a complex, multi-stage process of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sutashu Tomonaga , Kenji Doya , Noboru Murata

State-space models (SSMs) have recently gained attention in deep learning for their ability to efficiently model long-range dependencies, making them promising candidates for edge-AI applications. In this paper, we analyze the effects of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Leo Zhao , Tristan Torchet , Melika Payvand , Laura Kriener , Filippo Moro

Structured state-space models (SSMs) have recently emerged as a powerful architecture at the intersection of machine learning and control, featuring layers composed of discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems followed by pointwise…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Leonardo Massai , Muhammad Zakwan , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Plateaus, where an agent's performance stagnates at a suboptimal level, are a common problem in deep on-policy RL. Focusing on PPO due to its widespread adoption, we show that plateaus in certain regimes arise not because of known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Michael Beukman , Khimya Khetarpal , Zeyu Zheng , Will Dabney , Jakob Foerster , Michael Dennis , Clare Lyle

Structured state space models (SSMs) have recently emerged as a promising foundation for sequence modeling, with Mamba-based architectures demonstrating strong performance through input-dependent state transitions, albeit at considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hassan Saadatmand , Geoffrey I. Webb , Hamid Rezatofighi , Mahsa Salehi

Structured State Space models (SSM) have recently emerged as a new class of deep learning models, particularly well-suited for processing long sequences. Their constant memory footprint, in contrast to the linearly scaling memory demands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Sebastian Siegel , Ming-Jay Yang , Younes Bouhadjar , Maxime Fabre , Emre Neftci , John Paul Strachan

Training stability is a persistent challenge in the pre-training of large language models (LLMs), particularly for architectures such as Post-Norm Transformers, which are prone to gradient explosion and dissipation. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Ya Wang , Zhijian Zhuo , Yutao Zeng , Xun Zhou , Jian Yang , Xiaoqing Li

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) offer fast inference on long sequences but are hard to optimize and slow to train. Deep state-space models (SSMs) have recently been shown to perform remarkably well on long sequence modeling tasks, and have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Antonio Orvieto , Samuel L Smith , Albert Gu , Anushan Fernando , Caglar Gulcehre , Razvan Pascanu , Soham De