Gated DeltaNet-2: Decoupling Erase and Write in Linear Attention
Linear attention replaces the unbounded cache of softmax attention with a fixed-size recurrent state, reducing sequence mixing to linear time and decoding to constant memory. The hard part is not just what to forget, but how to edit this compressed memory without scrambling existing associations. Delta-rule models subtract the current read before writing a new value, and Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) sharpens forgetting with channel-wise decay. But the active edit still uses a single scalar gate to control two different things: how much old content to erase on the key side and how much new content to commit on the value side. We introduce Gated DeltaNet-2, which generalizes both Gated DeltaN...
| Authors | Ali Hatamizadeh, Yejin Choi, Jan Kautz |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 21 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 21 May 2026 |
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