Kalman Delta Networks: Uncertainty-aware Associative Memory
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arXiv:2609.07816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear attention is increasingly used in frontier language models for efficient long-context inference and constant-memory decoding. Its fixed-size recurrent memory, however, requires an online decision at each token: what to write and how strongly to overwrite existing associations before knowing which information future queries will require. Delta-rule models learn this strength from the current token embedding but do not track confidence in the memory estimate, preventing each write from adapting to accumulated evidence. To represent this un
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- arXiv:2609.07816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear attention is increasingly used in frontier language models for efficient long-context inference and constant-memory decoding.
- Its fixed-size recurrent memory, however, requires an online decision at each token: what to write and how strongly to overwrite existing associations before knowing which information future queries will require.
- Delta-rule models learn this strength from the current token embedding but do not track confidence in the memory estimate, preventing each write from adapting to accumulated evidence.
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