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Gated Delta Networks: Improving Mamba2 with Delta Rule

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Linear Transformers have gained attention as efficient alternatives to standard Transformers, but their performance in retrieval and long-context tasks has been limited. To address these limitations, recent work has explored two distinct mechanisms: gating for adaptive memory control and the delta update rule for precise memory modifications. We observe that these mechanisms are complementary: gating enables rapid memory erasure while the delta rule facilitates targeted updates. Building on this insight, we introduce the gated delta rule and develop a parallel training algorithm optimized for modern hardware. Our proposed architecture, Gated DeltaNet, consistently surpasses existing models like Mamba2 and DeltaNet across multiple benchmarks, including language modeling, common-sense reasoning, in-context retrieval, length extrapolation, and long-context understanding. We further enhance performance by developing hybrid architectures that combine Gated DeltaNet layers with sliding window attention or Mamba2 layers, achieving both improved training efficiency and superior task performance.

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cs.AI · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

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cs.CL · 2026-06-29 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

FlashMorph formulates hybrid layer selection as budget-constrained optimization, trains per-layer gates on synthetic retrieval data with linearization regularization, then discretizes and distills to produce efficient hybrid architectures.

SpikeProphecy: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Autoregressive Neural Population Forecasting

q-bio.NC · 2026-05-13 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

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Mixture of Layers with Hybrid Attention

cs.LG · 2026-05-10 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Mixture of Layers replaces monolithic transformer blocks with routed thin parallel blocks using hybrid attention that combines a shared softmax block for global context with Gated DeltaNet linear attention in the routed blocks.

Transformers with Selective Access to Early Representations

cs.LG · 2026-05-05 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0 · 2 refs

SATFormer uses a context-dependent gate for selective reuse of early Transformer representations, improving validation loss and zero-shot accuracy especially on retrieval benchmarks.

LT2: Linear-Time Looped Transformers

cs.LG · 2026-05-20 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0 · 2 refs

LT2 introduces looped transformers with linear-time attention (linear, sparse, and hybrid variants) that match or exceed standard looped transformer quality at linear complexity, including a converted 1.4B model competitive with larger industry models.

A Single-Layer Model Can Do Language Modeling

cs.CL · 2026-05-11 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A 130M-parameter 1-layer GPN achieves FineWeb-Edu perplexity 18.06, within 13% of a 12-layer Transformer++ (16.05) and 18% of a 10-layer GDN (15.34).

Training Transformers for KV Cache Compressibility

cs.LG · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0 · 2 refs

Training transformers with KV sparsification during continued pretraining produces representations that admit better post-hoc KV cache compression, improving quality under memory budgets for long-context tasks.

The Impossibility Triangle of Long-Context Modeling

cs.CL · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

No model can achieve efficiency, compactness, and recall capacity scaling with sequence length at once, as any two imply a strict bound of O(poly(d)/log V) on recallable facts.

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