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RWKV is a modern RNN architecture with comparable performance to Transformer, but still faces challenges when deployed to resource-constrained devices. Post Training Quantization (PTQ), which is a an essential technique to reduce model size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Chen Xu , Yuxuan Yue , Zukang Xu , Xing Hu , Jiangyong Yu , Zhixuan Chen , Sifan Zhou , Zhihang Yuan , Dawei Yang

The WuNeng architecture introduces a novel approach to enhancing the expressivity and power of large language models by integrating recurrent neural network (RNN)-based RWKV-7 with advanced attention mechanisms, prioritizing heightened…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Liu Xiao , Li Zhiyuan , Lin Yueyu

Transformer models have been successful in various sequence processing tasks, but the self-attention mechanism's computational cost limits its practicality for long sequences. Although there are existing attention variants that improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Zicheng Liu , Li Wang , Siyuan Li , Zedong Wang , Haitao Lin , Stan Z. Li

Edge acceleration for large language models is crucial for their widespread application; however, achieving fast attention inference and efficient decoding on resource-constrained edge accelerators remains challenging. This paper presents…

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Image dehazing is crucial for reliable visual perception, yet it remains highly challenging under real-world non-uniform haze conditions. Although Transformer-based methods excel at capturing global context, their quadratic computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lirong Zheng , Yanshan Li , Rui Yu , Kaihao Zhang

Accurately understanding complex visual information is crucial for visual language models (VLMs). Enhancing image resolution can improve visual perception capabilities, not only reducing hallucinations but also boosting performance in tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zihang Li , Haowen Hou

To address the challenges of high computational costs and long-distance dependencies in exist ing video understanding methods, such as CNNs and Transformers, this work introduces RWKV to the video domain in a novel way. We propose a LSTM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Zhuowen Yin , Chengru Li , Xingbo Dong

In light of recent progress in video editing, deep learning models focusing on both spatial and temporal dependencies have emerged as the primary method. However, these models suffer from the quadratic computational complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Abdelilah Aitrouga , Youssef Hmamouche , Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

As the length of input text increases, the key-value (KV) cache in LLMs imposes prohibitive GPU memory costs and limits long-context inference on resource constrained devices. Existing approaches, such as KV quantization and pruning, reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Tenghui Li , Guoxu Zhou , Xuyang Zhao , Yuning Qiu , Qibin Zhao

Transformers have revolutionized medical image restoration, but the quadratic complexity still poses limitations for their application to high-resolution medical images. The recent advent of the Receptance Weighted Key Value (RWKV) model in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Zhiwen Yang , Jiayin Li , Hui Zhang , Dan Zhao , Bingzheng Wei , Yan Xu

To deploy LLMs on resource-contained platforms such as mobile robots and smartphones, non-transformers LLMs have achieved major breakthroughs. Recently, a novel RNN-based LLM family, Repentance Weighted Key Value (RWKV) has shown strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Wonkyo Choe , Yangfeng Ji , Felix Xiaozhu Lin

Large Language Models (LLMs) require significant GPU memory when processing long texts, with the key value (KV) cache consuming up to 70\% of total memory during inference. Although existing compression methods reduce memory by evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Xiang Liu , Zhenheng Tang , Peijie Dong , Zeyu Li , Yue Liu , Bo Li , Xuming Hu , Xiaowen Chu

Transformers have revolutionized computer vision and natural language processing, but their high computational complexity limits their application in high-resolution image processing and long-context analysis. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuchen Duan , Weiyun Wang , Zhe Chen , Xizhou Zhu , Lewei Lu , Tong Lu , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li , Jifeng Dai , Wenhai Wang

As is known, hybrid quadratic and subquadratic attention models in multi-head architectures have surpassed both Transformer and Linear RNN models , with these works primarily focusing on reducing KV complexity and improving efficiency. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Lin Yueyu , Li Zhiyuan , Peter Yue , Liu Xiao

This paper investigates the efficacy of RWKV, a novel language model architecture known for its linear attention mechanism, for generating sentence embeddings in a zero-shot setting. I conduct a layer-wise analysis to evaluate the semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xinghan Pan

The increasing size of the Key-Value (KV) cache during the Large Language Models long-context inference is the main obstacle for its balance between the deployment cost and task accuracy. To reduce the KV cache size in such scenarios, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Manlai Liang , JiaMing Zhang , Xiong Li , Jinlong Li

Existing paradigms for remote sensing change detection are caught in a trade-off: CNNs excel at efficiency but lack global context, while Transformers capture long-range dependencies at a prohibitive computational cost. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhenyu Yang , Gensheng Pei , Tao Chen , Xia Yuan , Haofeng Zhang , Xiangbo Shu , Yazhou Yao

Causal Transformer language models suffer from strictly sequential decoding and a quadratic per-step attention cost. While linear-time causal models and discrete diffusion models each address these weaknesses, their integration remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ke Lin , Yiyang Luo , Zhaolong Su , Yunya Song , Anyi Rao

Currently, most multimodal studies are based on large language models (LLMs) with quadratic-complexity Transformer architectures. While linear models like RNNs enjoy low inference costs, their application has been largely limited to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Jiale Kang , Ziyin Yue , Qingyu Yin , Jiang Rui , Weile Li , Zening Lu , Zhouran Ji

Huge memory consumption has been a major bottleneck for deploying high-throughput large language models in real-world applications. In addition to the large number of parameters, the key-value (KV) cache for the attention mechanism in the…

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