Forget Attention: Importance-Aware Attention Is All You Need

arXiv:2606.02332v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Combining attention's global retrieval with the sequential importance signal of state space models (SSMs) is the open challenge of hybrid language modeling. Transformers see everywhere but cannot prioritize; SSMs know what matters but cannot revisit. Existing hybrids -- Jamba (block level) and...

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