AI RESEARCH

Gated DeltaNet-2: Decoupling Erase and Write in Linear Attention

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.22791v1 Announce Type: new 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.