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Large pre-trained models have achieved outstanding results in sequence modeling. The Transformer block and its attention mechanism have been the main drivers of the success of these models. Recently, alternative architectures, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 J. Pablo Muñoz , Jinjie Yuan , Nilesh Jain

We propose the *State Space Neural Operator* (SS-NO), a compact architecture for learning solution operators of time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). Our formulation extends structured state space models (SSMs) to joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Nodens Koren , Samuel Lanthaler

We propose a unified mixture sampler (UMS) that provides a universal estimation framework for nonlinear state-space models with "exp-exp" likelihood kernels. Unlike existing methods that require deriving new mixture approximations for each…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Daichi Hiraki , Yasuhiro Omori

A State Space Model (SSM) is a foundation model in time series analysis, which has recently been shown as an alternative to transformers in sequence modeling. In this paper, we theoretically study the generalization of SSMs and propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Fusheng Liu , Qianxiao Li

Modern state-space models (SSMs) often utilize transition matrices which enable efficient computation but pose restrictions on the model's expressivity, as measured in terms of the ability to emulate finite-state automata (FSA). While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Aleksandar Terzić , Nicolas Menet , Michael Hersche , Thomas Hofmann , Abbas Rahimi

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

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as a potent tool in sequence modeling tasks in recent years. These models approximate continuous systems using a set of basis functions and discretize them to handle input data, making them well-suited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiaxi Hu , Disen Lan , Ziyu Zhou , Qingsong Wen , Yuxuan Liang

Recent State Space Models (SSM), especially Mamba, have demonstrated impressive performance in visual modeling and possess superior model efficiency. However, the application of Mamba to visual tasks suffers inferior performance due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Fei Xie , Jiahao Nie , Yujin Tang , Wenkang Zhang , Hongshen Zhao

Given the similarity between facial expression categories, the presence of compound facial expressions, and the subjectivity of annotators, facial expression recognition (FER) datasets often suffer from ambiguity and noisy labels. Ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ziyang Zhang , Xiao Sun , Liuwei An , Meng Wang

We prove that Moore machines can be exactly realized as state-space models (SSMs), establishing a formal correspondence between symbolic automata and these continuous machine learning architectures. These Moore-SSMs preserve both the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 William Fishell , Sam Nicholas Kouteili , Mark Santolucito

We analyse the complexity of the satisfiability problem ssmSAT for State Space Models (SSM), which asks whether an input sequence can lead the model to an accepting configuration. We find that ssmSAT is undecidable in general, reflecting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Eric Alsmann , Martin Lange

State space models (SSMs) have gained attention by showing potential to outperform Transformers. However, previous studies have not sufficiently addressed the mechanisms underlying their high performance owing to a lack of theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 JingChuan Guan , Tomoyuki Kubota , Yasuo Kuniyoshi , Kohei Nakajima

Efficiently modeling large 2D contexts is essential for various fields including Giga-Pixel Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) and remote sensing. Transformer-based models offer high parallelism but face challenges due to their quadratic complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jingwei Zhang , Anh Tien Nguyen , Xi Han , Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh , Hong Qin , Dimitris Samaras , Mahdi S. Hosseini

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient solution by utilizing the spike-based and sparse nature of biological systems. Since the advent of Transformers, SNNs have struggled to compete with artificial networks on long…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yan Zhong , Ruoyu Zhao , Chao Wang , Qinghai Guo , Jianguo Zhang , Zhichao Lu , Luziwei Leng

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 Model (SSM) is a mathematical model used to describe and analyze the behavior of dynamic systems. This model has witnessed numerous applications in several fields, including control theory, signal processing, economics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xiao Liu , Chenxu Zhang , Lei Zhang

Spiking neural networks have garnered increasing attention due to their energy efficiency, multiplication-free computation, and sparse event-based processing. In parallel, state space models have emerged as scalable alternatives to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Kartikay Agrawal , Abhijeet Vikram , Vedant Sharma , Vaishnavi Nagabhushana , Ayon Borthakur

State Space Models (SSMs) are inherently recurrent along the sequence dimension, yet depth-recurrence - reusing the same block repeatedly across layers, as recently applied in looped transformers - has not been explored in this model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mónika Farsang , Ramin Hasani , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as a powerful and efficient alternative to Transformers, demonstrating linear-time complexity and exceptional sequence modeling capabilities. However, their application to vision tasks remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hongyu Ke , Jack Morris , Yongkang Liu , Satoshi Kitai , Kentaro Oguchi , Yi Ding , Haoxin Wang

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