Sparse replay memory extends linear attention to million-token contexts

NoteBank stores selected text spans separately and replays retrieved evidence through pretrained recurrent models without retraining.

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Li Nanbo · Firas Laakom · Yilan Zhang · Piotr Piękos · Yimeng Chen · Liangyu Wang · +7 more

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

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Li Nanbo and colleagues augment linear-attention language models with a sparse episodic memory that preserves selected text outside the model’s fixed recurrent state.

The authors developed NoteBank, a training-free memory interface for recurrent and hybrid language models.

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From King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

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NoteBank, a training-free episodic memory, improves long-context retrieval in linear attention from 1.7% to 70.3% at one million tokens.

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