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Global effective receptive field plays a crucial role for image style transfer (ST) to obtain high-quality stylized results. However, existing ST backbones (e.g., CNNs and Transformers) suffer huge computational complexity to achieve global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Hongda Liu , Longguang Wang , Ye Zhang , Ziru Yu , Yulan Guo

State Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have become a popular alternative to Transformer models, due to their reduced memory consumption and higher throughput at generation compared to their Attention-based counterparts. On the other hand,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Abhinav Moudgil , Ningyuan Huang , Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane , Pau Rodríguez , Luca Zappella , Federico Danieli

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

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

State-space models (SSMs) have recently demonstrated competitive performance to transformers at large-scale language modeling benchmarks while achieving linear time and memory complexity as a function of sequence length. Mamba, a recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Quentin Anthony , Yury Tokpanov , Paolo Glorioso , Beren Millidge

State space models (SSMs), such as Mamba, have emerged as an efficient alternative to transformers for long-context sequence modeling. However, despite their growing adoption, SSMs lack the interpretability tools that have been crucial for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Hugo Pitorro , Marcos Treviso

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

We propose ss-Mamba, a novel foundation model that enhances time series forecasting by integrating semantic-aware embeddings and adaptive spline-based temporal encoding within a selective state-space modeling framework. Building upon the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Zuochen Ye

While transformer-based language models have driven the AI revolution thus far, their computational complexity has spurred growing interest in viable alternatives, such as structured state space sequence models (SSMs) and Selective SSMs.…

Mamba-based State Space Models (SSM) have emerged as a promising alternative to the ubiquitous transformers. Despite the expressive power of transformers, the quadratic complexity of computing attention is a major impediment to scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Trinayan Baruah , Kaustubh Shivdikar , Sara Prescott , David Kaeli

Probabilistic State Space Models (SSMs) are essential for Reinforcement Learning (RL) from high-dimensional, partial information as they provide concise representations for control. Yet, they lack the computational efficiency of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Philipp Becker , Niklas Freymuth , Gerhard Neumann

Transformers excel at in-context retrieval but suffer from quadratic complexity with sequence length, while State Space Models (SSMs) offer efficient linear-time processing but have limited retrieval capabilities. We investigate whether…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Malvina Nikandrou , Ioannis Konstas , Alessandro Suglia

Efficient long-context language modeling remains a significant challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP). While Transformers dominate language tasks, they struggle with long sequences due to quadratic computational complexity in…

Efficiently modeling sequences with infinite context length has long been a challenging problem. Previous approaches have either suffered from quadratic computational complexity or limited extrapolation ability in length generalization. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Liliang Ren , Yang Liu , Yadong Lu , Yelong Shen , Chen Liang , Weizhu Chen

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

Mamba, based on state space model (SSM) with its linear complexity and great success in classification provide its superiority in 3D point cloud analysis. Prior to that, Transformer has emerged as one of the most prominent and successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jia-wei Chen , Yu-jie Xiong , Yong-bin Gao

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

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

Transformers have widely adopted attention networks for sequence mixing and MLPs for channel mixing, playing a pivotal role in achieving breakthroughs across domains. However, recent literature highlights issues with attention networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Badri N. Patro , Vijay S. Agneeswaran

State space models (SSMs) like Mamba offer efficient alternatives to Transformer-based language models, with linear time complexity. Yet, their adversarial robustness remains critically unexplored. This paper studies the phenomenon whereby…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Alexandre Le Mercier , Chris Develder , Thomas Demeester