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Deep neural networks based on state space models (SSMs) are attracting significant attention in sequence modeling since their computational cost is much smaller than that of Transformers. While the capabilities of SSMs have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-06 Naoki Nishikawa , Taiji Suzuki

Recent advances in sequence modeling have introduced selective SSMs as promising alternatives to Transformer architectures, offering theoretical computational efficiency and sequence processing advantages. A comprehensive understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Abdullah Al Asif , Mobina Kashaniyan , Sixing Yu , Juan Pablo Muñoz , Ali Jannesari

Linear State Space Models (SSMs) offer remarkable performance gains in efficient sequence modeling, with constant inference-time computation and memory complexity. Recent advances, such as Mamba, further enhance SSMs with input-dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zheng Zhan , Liliang Ren , Shuohang Wang , Liyuan Liu , Yang Liu , Yeyun Gong , Yanzhi Wang , Yelong Shen

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as promising alternatives to attention mechanisms, with the Mamba architecture demonstrating impressive performance and linear complexity for processing long sequences. However, the fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Tianyi Chen , Pengxiao Lin , Zhiwei Wang , Zhi-Qin John Xu

Despite their successes, deep learning models struggle with tasks requiring complex reasoning and function composition. We present a theoretical and empirical investigation into the limitations of Structured State Space Models (SSMs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Nikola Zubić , Federico Soldá , Aurelio Sulser , Davide Scaramuzza

Selective state space models (SSMs), such as Mamba, highly excel at capturing long-range dependencies in 1D sequential data, while their applications to 2D vision tasks still face challenges. Current visual SSMs often convert images into 1D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Chaodong Xiao , Minghan Li , Zhengqiang Zhang , Deyu Meng , Lei Zhang

State Space Models (SSMs) have become the leading alternative to Transformers for sequence modeling. Their primary advantage is efficiency in long-context and long-form generation, enabled by fixed-size memory and linear scaling of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Eran Malach , Omid Saremi , Sinead Williamson , Arwen Bradley , Aryo Lotfi , Emmanuel Abbe , Josh Susskind , Etai Littwin

State-space models (SSMs) offer a powerful framework for dynamical system analysis, wherein the temporal dynamics of the system are assumed to be captured through the evolution of the latent states, which govern the values of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-17 Jiahe Lin , George Michailidis

Sequence modeling is a crucial area across various domains, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), speech recognition, time series forecasting, music generation, and bioinformatics. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Long Short Term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Badri Narayana Patro , Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran

This paper studies sequence modeling for prediction tasks with long range dependencies. We propose a new formulation for state space models (SSMs) based on learning linear dynamical systems with the spectral filtering algorithm (Hazan et…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Naman Agarwal , Daniel Suo , Xinyi Chen , Elad Hazan

Large language models (LLMs) face a daunting challenge due to the excessive computational and memory requirements of the commonly used Transformer architecture. While state space model (SSM) is a new type of foundational network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Wei He , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Chengcheng Wang , Yujie Yang , Tianyu Guo , Yunhe Wang

In this paper, we analyze the computational limitations of Mamba and State-space Models (SSMs) by using the circuit complexity framework. Despite Mamba's stateful design and recent attention as a strong candidate to outperform Transformers,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yifang Chen , Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

State space models (SSMs) have emerged as a powerful framework for modelling long-range dependencies in sequence data. Unlike traditional recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), SSMs offer a structured and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Siddhanth Bhat

The goal of this paper is to provide a system identification-friendly introduction to the Structured State-space Models (SSMs). These models have become recently popular in the machine learning community since, owing to their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Fabio Bonassi , Carl Andersson , Per Mattsson , Thomas B. Schön

State Space Models (SSMs), particularly recent selective variants like Mamba, have emerged as a leading architecture for sequence modeling, challenging the dominance of Transformers. However, the success of these state-of-the-art models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yiyi Wang , Jian'an Zhang , Hongyi Duan , Haoyang Liu , Qingyang Li

We investigate the expressive power of state space models (SSM), which have recently emerged as a potential alternative to transformer architectures in large language models. Building on recent work, we analyse SSM expressiveness through…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Eric Alsmann , Lowejatan Noori , Martin Lange

State-space models (SSMs), particularly the Mamba architecture, have emerged as powerful alternatives to Transformers for sequence modeling, offering linear-time complexity and competitive performance across diverse tasks. However, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

Deep state space models (SSMs) are an actively researched model class for temporal models developed in the deep learning community which have a close connection to classic SSMs. The use of deep SSMs as a black-box identification model can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Daniel Gedon , Niklas Wahlström , Thomas B. Schön , Lennart Ljung

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to Transformers for long-context sequence modeling, offering linear $O(N)$ computational complexity compared to the Transformer's quadratic $O(N^2)$ scaling. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Abidemi Koledoye , Chinemerem Unachukwu , Gold Nwobu , Hasin Rana

Semantic segmentation is a vital task in the field of remote sensing (RS). However, conventional convolutional neural network (CNN) and transformer-based models face limitations in capturing long-range dependencies or are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yin Hu , Xianping Ma , Jialu Sui , Man-On Pun