Switching attention layers close gap between linear and softmax

SwiLA keeps fixed-size memory while matching or beating softmax attention on several benchmarks.

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Hyun Dong Lee · Xavier Gonzalez · Nicolas Zucchet · E. Kelly Buchanan · Emily B. Fox · Scott W. Linderman

Stanford University

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The authors frame sequence layers as test-time regression, where attention mechanisms implicitly fit a mapping to retrieve context.

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Switching Linear Attention matches or exceeds softmax expressivity while keeping linear attention's fixed-size recurrent state.

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