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Re:LM2: Large Memory Models by tripplyons on Friday February 14, 2025 @11:40AM (#43050205)
There are some interesting connections between them. If you remove the softmax from the attention formula, you end up with linear attention, which has a recurrent form.

I haven't read it, but the Mamba 2 paper claims to establish a stronger connection.

Re:LM2: Large Memory Models by kadushka on Friday February 14, 2025 @11:44AM (#43050258)
* If you remove the softmax from the attention formula, you end up with linear attention*

Sorry, what?

Re:LM2: Large Memory Models by tripplyons on Friday February 14, 2025 @12:14PM (#43050562)
Here is a paper explaining it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16236