How Well Can a Long Sequence Model Model Long Sequences? Comparing Architectural Inductive Biases on Long-Context Abilities (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in system engineering and model design have enabled extended context models. |
| Approach: | They propose to scale up models that are purported to support extended contexts . they show that recurrent models still suffer in the same settings as long-context LLMs if attention is given to them . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models can extend to infinite sequence length, but they suffer in the same settings as long-context models with attention. |
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