3 papers
cs.CL2025
Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture
Kimi Team, Yu Zhang, Zongyu Lin +57
We introduce Kimi Linear, a hybrid linear attention architecture that, for the first time, outperforms full attention under fair comparisons across various scenarios -- including s…
cs.CL2025
Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free
Zihan Qiu, Zekun Wang, Bo Zheng +10
Gating mechanisms have been widely utilized, from early models like LSTMs and Highway Networks to recent state space models, linear attention, and also softmax attention. Yet, exis…
cs.CV2025
ARFlow: Autoregressive Flow with Hybrid Linear Attention
Mude Hui, Rui-Jie Zhu, Songlin Yang +5
Flow models are effective at progressively generating realistic images, but they generally struggle to capture long-range dependencies during the generation process as they compres…