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state-space model

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Definition

A sequence model that maintains a fixed-size running memory rather than attending to every previous token.

A class of sequence models that maintain a fixed-dimensional recurrent state, including Mamba and S4 variants, offering constant memory per step.

Also called: state-space models, SSM, state-space

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