Variational-Ising-Attention:Tailored Attention Matters for Science
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arXiv:2607.23634v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Attention enables context modeling via query-key scoring with softmax normalization. Driven by industrial long-context demands, mainstream research has converged toward sparsity and efficiency, yet softmax's independence assumption persists. For scientific tasks unburdened by long-token constraints, however, richer structured coupling may often be essential, making tailored attention both viable and more appropriate. To this end, we propose Variational-Ising-Attention (VIA), which augments softmax normalization with an interacting Ising
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- arXiv:2607.23634v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Attention enables context modeling via query-key scoring with softmax normalization.
- Driven by industrial long-context demands, mainstream research has converged toward sparsity and efficiency, yet softmax's independence assumption persists.
- For scientific tasks unburdened by long-token constraints, however, richer structured coupling may often be essential, making tailored attention both viable and more appropriate.
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