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Effective reasoning is crucial to solving complex mathematical problems. Recent large language models (LLMs) have boosted performance by scaling test-time computation through long chain-of-thought reasoning. However, transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Junxiong Wang , Wen-Ding Li , Daniele Paliotta , Daniel Ritter , Alexander M. Rush , Tri Dao

In-context learning (ICL) derives its power from enabling Large Language Models to adapt to new tasks via prompt-based reasoning alone, entirely bypassing the need for parameter updates. Existing theories primarily study ICL in single-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Guangyu Li , Meng Ding , Lijie Hu

Self attention encoders such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT) scale quadratically with sequence length, making long context modeling expensive. Linear time state space models, such as Mamba, are efficient;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jinwoong Kim , Sangjin Park

In-context learning (ICL) refers to a remarkable capability of pretrained large language models, which can learn a new task given a few examples during inference. However, theoretical understanding of ICL is largely under-explored,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Tong Yang , Yu Huang , Yingbin Liang , Yuejie Chi

Modern multivariate time series forecasting primarily relies on two architectures: the Transformer with attention mechanism and Mamba. In natural language processing, an approach has been used that combines local window attention for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Itay Katav , Aryeh Kontorovich

In multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF), existing strategies for processing sequences are typically categorized as channel-independent and channel-mixing. The former treats all temporal information of each variable as a token,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bing Fan , Shusen Ma , Yun-Bo Zhao , Yu Kang

In-context learning (ICL) is now a common method for teaching large language models (LLMs) new tasks: given labeled examples in the input context, the LLM learns to perform the task without weight updates. Do models guided via ICL infer the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Aaron Mueller , Albert Webson , Jackson Petty , Tal Linzen

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

Despite the remarkable quality of LLM-based text-to-speech systems, their reliance on autoregressive Transformers leads to quadratic computational complexity, which severely limits practical applications. Linear-time alternatives, notably…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Tan Dat Nguyen , Sangmin Bae , Joon Son Chung , Ji-Hoon Kim

Speculative decoding has emerged as a promising approach to accelerating large language model (LLM) generation using a fast drafter while maintaining alignment with the target model's distribution. However, existing approaches face a…

In recent years, the application of multimodal large language models (MLLM) in various fields has achieved remarkable success. However, as the foundation model for many downstream tasks, current MLLMs are composed of the well-known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Han Zhao , Min Zhang , Wei Zhao , Pengxiang Ding , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

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

This work presents Mamba Imitation Learning (MaIL), a novel imitation learning (IL) architecture that provides an alternative to state-of-the-art (SoTA) Transformer-based policies. MaIL leverages Mamba, a state-space model designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Xiaogang Jia , Qian Wang , Atalay Donat , Bowen Xing , Ge Li , Hongyi Zhou , Onur Celik , Denis Blessing , Rudolf Lioutikov , Gerhard Neumann

Transformer models, notably large language models (LLMs), have the remarkable ability to perform in-context learning (ICL) -- to perform new tasks when prompted with unseen input-output examples without any explicit model training. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Steve Yadlowsky , Lyric Doshi , Nilesh Tripuraneni

Despite the fact that Transformers perform well in NLP tasks, recent studies suggest that self-attention is theoretically limited in learning even some regular and context-free languages. These findings motivated us to think about their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Shunjie Wang , Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Sequential modeling has demonstrated remarkable capabilities in offline reinforcement learning (RL), with Decision Transformer (DT) being one of the most notable representatives, achieving significant success. However, RL trajectories…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jiahang Cao , Qiang Zhang , Ziqing Wang , Jingkai Sun , Jiaxu Wang , Hao Cheng , Yecheng Shao , Wen Zhao , Gang Han , Yijie Guo , Renjing Xu

With the evolution of large language models, traditional Transformer models become computationally demanding for lengthy sequences due to the quadratic growth in computation with respect to the sequence length. Mamba, emerging as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Haoran Xu , Ziqian Liu , Rong Fu , Zhongling Su , Zerui Wang , Zheng Cai , Zhilin Pei , Xingcheng Zhang

In recent years, Transformers have become the de-facto architecture for sequence modeling on text and a variety of multi-dimensional data, such as images and video. However, the use of self-attention layers in a Transformer incurs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Shufan Li , Harkanwar Singh , Aditya Grover

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted in networking research to address domain-specific challenges. However, their quadratic time complexity and substantial model sizes often result in significant…

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