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On the Importance of Gating: Memorization vs. In-Context Learning in State Space Models
Apple Machine Learning Research · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Apple researchers show that gating mechanisms in State Space Models cause them to learn memorization before in-context learning, explaining their lag behind Transformers.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building or optimizing SSMs for language modeling need to understand how gating affects training dynamics and generalization on retrieval tasks.
- Watch out
- Gating helps long-sequence generalization but hurts in-context learning convergence. The findings are theoretical and experimental but don't yet propose production solutions.
- language model
- retrieval
- eval
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