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A linear attention architecture called Muir allocates gate capacity by sensitivity, uses matched-filter readout and a stable parallel update, improving language modeling, long-context recall, and training speed over Gated DeltaNet-2 and Transformer baselines.
Linear attention compresses context into a fixed-size key-value state for linear-time training and constant-memory inference. Gated delta-rule models decay this state and erase its prediction for an incoming key before writing a new value; Gated DeltaNet-2 (GDN-2) generalizes this with channel-wise decay and decoupled, full-rank erase and write gates. However, we show that state updates are far less sensitive to erasure than to writes: key activation and unit normalization concentrate key energy onto a sparse subset of channels, whereas value writes scale all channels, so the erase gate can be parameterized at lower rank. Furthermore, slow-decaying state rows accumulate much larger norms…
linear attentionfixed-size key-value statelinear-time trainingconstant-memory inferencegated delta-rule modelsGated DeltaNet-2GDN-2channel-wise decaydecoupled full-rank erase and write gatesstate updates
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