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DAMI: Dual-Axis Memory Initialization for Enhanced Long-Context Retrieval in Gated Linear Attention
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- DAMI improves long-context retrieval in linear attention models by carefully initializing two key parameters before training, boosting retrieval accuracy by 5 to 17 percentage points.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building or fine-tuning linear attention models like Mamba-2 or RWKV-7 that need to handle long document retrieval tasks efficiently.
- Watch out
- Method shows strong retrieval gains but maintains only comparable performance on standard language modeling and reasoning tasks, so gains are specialized to retrieval.
- retrieval
- long-context
- attention
- eval
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