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State Space Models (Mamba)

An alternative to Transformers that processes sequences with linear-time complexity instead of quadratic attention. Mamba and S4 are the foundational SSM architectures, and hybrid attention-SSM designs now appear in production models, offering advantages for very long sequences.

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Linear complexitySelective SSMS4Long-range dependencies