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This paper explores the capability of Mamba, a recently proposed architecture based on state space models (SSMs), as a competitive alternative to Transformer-based models. In the speech domain, well-designed Transformer-based models, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Koichi Miyazaki , Yoshiki Masuyama , Masato Murata

Attention mechanisms have been widely used to capture long-range dependencies among nodes in Graph Transformers. Bottlenecked by the quadratic computational cost, attention mechanisms fail to scale in large graphs. Recent improvements in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Chloe Wang , Oleksii Tsepa , Jun Ma , Bo Wang

State space models (SSMs) are a promising alternative to transformers for language modeling because they use fixed memory during inference. However, this fixed memory usage requires some information loss in the hidden state when processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Tamanna Hossain , Robert L. Logan , Ganesh Jagadeesan , Sameer Singh , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

Selective State-Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have emerged as an alternative architecture to self-attention based transformers in sequence modeling tasks. Recent works have demonstrated the use of transformers in some filtering and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Alex Tang , M. Emrullah Ildiz , Batin Kurt , Samet Oymak , Necmiye Ozay

As automation advances in manufacturing, the demand for precise and sophisticated defect detection technologies grows. Existing vision models for defect recognition methods are insufficient for handling the complexities and variations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Qianning Wang , He Hu , Yucheng Zhou

Sequence modeling plays a vital role across various domains, with recurrent neural networks being historically the predominant method of performing these tasks. However, the emergence of transformers has altered this paradigm due to their…

The recent empirical success of Mamba and other selective state space models (SSMs) has renewed interest in non-attention architectures for sequence modeling, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexplored. We present a first-step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Mugunthan Shandirasegaran , Hongkang Li , Songyang Zhang , Meng Wang , Shuai Zhang

The Mamba layer offers an efficient selective state space model (SSM) that is highly effective in modeling multiple domains, including NLP, long-range sequence processing, and computer vision. Selective SSMs are viewed as dual models, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ameen Ali , Itamar Zimerman , Lior Wolf

The goal of style transfer is, given a content image and a style source, generating a new image preserving the content but with the artistic representation of the style source. Most of the state-of-the-art architectures use transformers or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Filippo Botti , Alex Ergasti , Leonardo Rossi , Tomaso Fontanini , Claudio Ferrari , Massimo Bertozzi , Andrea Prati

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as efficient alternatives to Transformers for sequential modeling, but their inability to leverage modality-specific features limits their performance in multi-modal pretraining. Here, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Weixin Liang , Junhong Shen , Genghan Zhang , Ning Dong , Luke Zettlemoyer , Lili Yu

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as powerful alternatives to attention-based Transformers, with Mamba demonstrating impressive efficiency and scalability. As these models grow increasingly larger, the need for Parameter-Efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Donghyun Lee , Yuhang Li , Ruokai Yin , Shiting Xiao , Priyadarshini Panda

State-space models (SSMs) have emerged as an efficient strategy for building powerful language models, avoiding the quadratic complexity of computing attention in transformers. Despite their promise, the interpretability and steerability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Vamshi Sunku Mohan , Kaustubh Gupta , Aneesha Das , Chandan Singh

Decision Transformer, a promising approach that applies Transformer architectures to reinforcement learning, relies on causal self-attention to model sequences of states, actions, and rewards. While this method has shown competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Toshihiro Ota

State space models (SSMs) have emerged as an efficient alternative to Transformer models for language modeling, offering linear computational complexity and constant memory usage as context length increases. However, despite their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Zhifan Ye , Kejing Xia , Yonggan Fu , Xin Dong , Jihoon Hong , Xiangchi Yuan , Shizhe Diao , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov , Yingyan Celine Lin

Scaling inference-time compute has emerged as an important driver of LLM performance, making inference efficiency a central focus of model design alongside model quality. While the current Transformer-based models deliver strong model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aakash Lahoti , Kevin Y. Li , Berlin Chen , Caitlin Wang , Aviv Bick , J. Zico Kolter , Tri Dao , Albert Gu

State Space Models (SSMs) have recently enjoyed a rise to prominence in the field of deep learning for sequence modeling, especially as an alternative to Transformers. Their success stems from avoiding two well-known drawbacks of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Stefano Rando , Luca Romani , Matteo Migliarini , Luca Franco , Denis Gudovskiy , Fabio Galasso

State of the art foundation models such as GPT-4 perform surprisingly well at in-context learning (ICL), a variant of meta-learning concerning the learned ability to solve tasks during a neural network forward pass, exploiting contextual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Riccardo Grazzi , Julien Siems , Simon Schrodi , Thomas Brox , Frank Hutter

Transformers have been the most successful architecture for various speech modeling tasks, including speech separation. However, the self-attention mechanism in transformers with quadratic complexity is inefficient in computation and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Xilin Jiang , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

Sequential Recommenders have been widely applied in various online services, aiming to model users' dynamic interests from their sequential interactions. With users increasingly engaging with online platforms, vast amounts of lifelong user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiyuan Yang , Yuanzi Li , Jingyu Zhao , Hanbing Wang , Muyang Ma , Jun Ma , Zhaochun Ren , Mengqi Zhang , Xin Xin , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren

Mamba extends earlier state space models (SSMs) by introducing input-dependent dynamics, and has demonstrated strong empirical performance across a range of domains, including language modeling, computer vision, and foundation models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Annan Yu , N. Benjamin Erichson