% Key papers for Linear attention approximations (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{neurips2022_flashattention_64476, title = {{FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/54008}, } @inproceedings{aaai2020_real_102999, title = {{Real-Time Emotion Recognition via Attention Gated Hierarchical Memory Network}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/6309}, } @inproceedings{iclr2021_random_30304, title = {{Random Feature Attention}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/3213}, } @inproceedings{iclr2021_rethinking_30355, title = {{Rethinking Attention with Performers}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/2726}, } @inproceedings{icml2020_sparse_38774, title = {{Sparse Sinkhorn Attention}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2020/poster/6539}, } @inproceedings{iclr2022_cosformer_30990, title = {{cosFormer: Rethinking Softmax In Attention}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6040}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_luna_61781, title = {{Luna: Linear Unified Nested Attention}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/28250}, } @inproceedings{aaai2020_not_102267, title = {{Not All Attention Is Needed: Gated Attention Network for Sequence Data}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/6129}, } @inproceedings{iclr2023_mega_33219, title = {{Mega: Moving Average Equipped Gated Attention}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/11941}, } @inproceedings{iclr2018_monotonic_28545, title = {{Monotonic Chunkwise Attention}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/211}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_scatterbrain_62271, title = {{Scatterbrain: Unifying Sparse and Low-rank Attention}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/26519}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_bridging_72170, title = {{Bridging the Divide: Reconsidering Softmax and Linear Attention}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95169}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_differential_81993, title = {{Differential Transformer}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29792}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2025_dig_25922, title = {{DiG: Scalable and Efficient Diffusion Models with Gated Linear Attention}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2025/poster/35093}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_stable_62432, title = {{Stable, Fast and Accurate: Kernelized Attention with Relative Positional Encoding}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27095}, } @inproceedings{icml2022_improving_40695, title = {{Improving Transformers with Probabilistic Attention Keys}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2022/poster/17955}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_gated_45103, title = {{Gated Linear Attention Transformers with Hardware-Efficient Training}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33349}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_perceiving_70549, title = {{Perceiving Longer Sequences With Bi-Directional Cross-Attention Transformers}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96564}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_vig_11235, title = {{ViG: Linear-complexity Visual Sequence Learning with Gated Linear Attention}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/32550}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_gated_73527, title = {{Gated Slot Attention for Efficient Linear-Time Sequence Modeling}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93950}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_the_33623, title = {{The Hedgehog \& the Porcupine: Expressive Linear Attentions with Softmax Mimicry}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/19452}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_iterative_9615, title = {{Iterative Sparse Attention for Long-sequence Recommendation}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/33323}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2025_parallel_27217, title = {{Parallel Sequence Modeling via Generalized Spatial Propagation Network}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2025/poster/33001}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_transformer_35244, title = {{Transformer-VQ: Linear-Time Transformers via Vector Quantization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17829}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_polysketchformer_45035, title = {{PolySketchFormer: Fast Transformers via Sketching Polynomial Kernels}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33417}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_metala_72670, title = {{MetaLA: Unified Optimal Linear Approximation to Softmax Attention Map}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94714}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_flash_78594, title = {{Flash Invariant Point Attention}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=gKsG5qR3Bt}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_forgetting_83548, title = {{Forgetting Transformer: Softmax Attention with a Forget Gate}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/28268}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_explaining_84004, title = {{Explaining Modern Gated-Linear RNNs via a Unified Implicit Attention Formulation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/27821}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_sea_34139, title = {{SEA: Sparse Linear Attention with Estimated Attention Mask}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18936}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_various_44190, title = {{Various Lengths, Constant Speed: Efficient Language Modeling with Lightning Attention}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34262}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_sema_50934, title = {{SEMA: a Scalable and Efficient Mamba like Attention via Token Localization and Averaging}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=H3vDDSHWos}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_a_51180, title = {{A Provable Expressiveness Hierarchy in Hybrid Linear-Full Attention}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=JPnA2BI6U5}, }