AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · 6h ago6/10
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Forget Attention: Importance-Aware Attention Is All You Need
Researchers propose SISA (SSM-Informed Softmax Attention), a hybrid architecture that integrates state space model importance signals directly into transformer attention mechanisms at the score level. The approach achieves superior performance on language modeling benchmarks, particularly excelling at long-context retrieval tasks while maintaining computational efficiency through standard operations.