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Recent work has shown that state space models such as Mamba are significantly worse than Transformers on recall-based tasks due to the fact that their state size is constant with respect to their input sequence length. But in practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Asher Trockman , Hrayr Harutyunyan , J. Zico Kolter , Sanjiv Kumar , Srinadh Bhojanapalli

Modern sequence modeling is dominated by two families: Transformers, whose self-attention can access arbitrary elements of the visible sequence, and structured state-space models, which propagate information through an explicit recurrent…

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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

Recent works have demonstrated that attention-based transformer and large language model (LLM) architectures can achieve strong channel state prediction (CSP) performance by capturing long-range temporal dependencies across channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Aladin Djuhera , Haris Gacanin , Holger Boche

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as efficient alternatives to Transformers for sequential modeling, but their inability to leverage modality-specific features limits their performance in multi-modal pretraining. Here, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Weixin Liang , Junhong Shen , Genghan Zhang , Ning Dong , Luke Zettlemoyer , Lili Yu

Structured state-space models (SSMs) such as S4, stemming from the seminal work of Gu et al., are gaining popularity as effective approaches for modeling sequential data. Deep SSMs demonstrate outstanding performance across a diverse set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Nicola Muca Cirone , Antonio Orvieto , Benjamin Walker , Cristopher Salvi , Terry Lyons

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

Mamba-based models have drawn much attention in offline RL. However, their selective mechanism often detrimental when key steps in RL sequences are omitted. To address these issues, we propose a simple yet effective structure, called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Wall Kim , Chaeyoung Song , Hanul Kim

Whispered speech recognition presents significant challenges for conventional automatic speech recognition systems, particularly when combined with dialect variation. However, utilizing an efficient method to solve this problem using a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Aref Farhadipour , Homayoon Beigi , Volker Dellwo , Hadi Veisi

Sequential Recommenders have been widely applied in various online services, aiming to model users' dynamic interests from their sequential interactions. With users increasingly engaging with online platforms, vast amounts of lifelong user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiyuan Yang , Yuanzi Li , Jingyu Zhao , Hanbing Wang , Muyang Ma , Jun Ma , Zhaochun Ren , Mengqi Zhang , Xin Xin , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren

Transformers have been the most successful architecture for various speech modeling tasks, including speech separation. However, the self-attention mechanism in transformers with quadratic complexity is inefficient in computation and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Xilin Jiang , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

The ability of machine learning models to store input information in hidden layer vector embeddings, analogous to the concept of `memory', is widely employed but not well characterized. We find that language model embeddings typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Benjamin L. Badger

Long-term memory is a cornerstone of human intelligence. Enabling AI to process lifetime-scale information remains a long-standing pursuit in the field. Due to the constraints of full-attention architectures, the effective context length of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yu Chen , Runkai Chen , Sheng Yi , Xinda Zhao , Xiaohong Li , Jianjin Zhang , Jun Sun , Chuanrui Hu , Yunyun Han , Lidong Bing , Yafeng Deng , Tianqiao Chen

Recently, recurrent models based on linear state space models (SSMs) have shown promising performance in language modeling (LM), competititve with transformers. However, there is little understanding of the in-principle abilities of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yash Sarrof , Yana Veitsman , Michael Hahn

State space models (SSMs) like Mamba have gained significant traction as efficient alternatives to Transformers, achieving linear complexity while maintaining competitive performance. However, Hidden State Poisoning Attacks (HiSPAs), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Alexandre Le Mercier , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

State space models (SSMs) have emerged as an efficient alternative to transformer-based models, offering linear complexity that scales better than transformers. One of the latest advances in SSMs, Mamba, introduces a selective scan…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Junpeng Wang , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Uday Singh Saini , Mahashweta Das

Mamba-based models have drawn much attention in offline RL. However, their selective mechanism often detrimental when key steps in RL sequences are omitted. To address these issues, we propose a simple yet effective structure, called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Wall Kim , Chaeyoung Song , Hanul Kim

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

Transformers and their variants have achieved great success in speech processing. However, their multi-head self-attention mechanism is computationally expensive. Therefore, one novel selective state space model, Mamba, has been proposed as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yang Xiao , Rohan Kumar Das

While Mamba has demonstrated strong performance in language modeling, its potential as a speech self-supervised learning (SSL) model remains underexplored, with prior studies limited to isolated tasks. To address this, we explore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tzu-Quan Lin , Heng-Cheng Kuo , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Hsi-Chun Cheng , Chun Wei Chen , Hsien-Fu Hsiao , Yu Tsao , Hung-yi Lee