% Key papers for Sparse efficient transformers for long context (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{aaai2021_nystr_1075, title = {{Nyströmformer: A Nyström-based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/14138-nystromformer-a-nystrom-based-algorithm-for-approximating-self-attention/}, } @inproceedings{iclr2020_reformer_29836, title = {{Reformer: The Efficient Transformer}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=rkgNKkHtvB}, } @inproceedings{iclr2019_music_29145, title = {{Music Transformer: Generating Music with Long-Term Structure}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2019/poster/1008}, } @inproceedings{icml2020_transformers_38887, title = {{Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2020/poster/6257}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_big_59467, title = {{Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/18916}, } @inproceedings{iclr2021_long_30649, title = {{Long Range Arena : A Benchmark for Efficient Transformers}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/3225}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_flashattention_35184, title = {{FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17889}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_cogltx_59542, title = {{CogLTX: Applying BERT to Long Texts}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17152}, } @inproceedings{icml2023_hyena_41427, title = {{Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2023/poster/24143}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_long_62020, title = {{Long-Short Transformer: Efficient Transformers for Language and Vision}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/26816}, } @inproceedings{iclr2020_compressive_29720, title = {{Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modelling}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=SylKikSYDH}, } @inproceedings{icml2022_transformer_41290, title = {{Transformer Quality in Linear Time}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2022/poster/17273}, } @inproceedings{iclr2022_train_31269, title = {{Train Short, Test Long: Attention with Linear Biases Enables Input Length Extrapolation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6261}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_combiner_62008, title = {{Combiner: Full Attention Transformer with Sparse Computation Cost}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27023}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_block_66282, title = {{Block-Recurrent Transformers}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/54463}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_recurrent_65082, title = {{Recurrent Memory Transformer}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/52983}, } @inproceedings{neurips2023_unlimiformer_69299, title = {{Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/70601}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_vision_82207, title = {{Vision-LSTM: xLSTM as Generic Vision Backbone}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29584}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_ringattention_34611, title = {{RingAttention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18463}, } @inproceedings{neurips2023_megabyte_67693, title = {{MEGABYTE: Predicting Million-byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/72057}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_beyond_5281, title = {{Beyond Attention: Breaking the Limits of Transformer Context Length with Recurrent Memory}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29722}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_parallelizing_74544, title = {{Parallelizing Linear Transformers with the Delta Rule over Sequence Length}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93040}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_approximation_72793, title = {{Approximation Rate of the Transformer Architecture for Sequence Modeling}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94603}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_proxyformer_7026, title = {{Proxyformer: Nyström-Based Linear Transformer with Trainable Proxy Tokens}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29244}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_transformers_71260, title = {{Transformers to SSMs: Distilling Quadratic Knowledge to Subquadratic Models}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95984}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_lmuformer_35245, title = {{LMUFormer: Low Complexity Yet Powerful Spiking Model With Legendre Memory Units}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17828}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_a_46862, title = {{A Large Recurrent Action Model: xLSTM enables Fast Inference for Robotics Tasks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45715}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_flashfftconv_34930, title = {{FlashFFTConv: Efficient Convolutions for Long Sequences with Tensor Cores}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18144}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_dsp_47871, title = {{DSP: Dynamic Sequence Parallelism for Multi-Dimensional Transformers}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44732}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_understanding_70178, title = {{Understanding the Expressive Power and Mechanisms of Transformer for Sequence Modeling}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96906}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_mini_70265, title = {{Mini-Sequence Transformers: Optimizing Intermediate Memory for Long Sequences Training}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96824}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_two_77792, title = {{Two Heads are Better than One: Simulating Large Transformers with Small Ones}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Xeb2EYBKkr}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_radar_82579, title = {{Radar: Fast Long-Context Decoding for Any Transformer}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29218}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_iceformer_33686, title = {{IceFormer: Accelerated Inference with Long-Sequence Transformers on CPUs}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/19389}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_leapformer_44642, title = {{LeaPformer: Enabling Linear Transformers for Autoregressive and Simultaneous Tasks via Learned Proportions}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33810}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_context_46476, title = {{Context Matters: Query-aware Dynamic Long Sequence Modeling of Gigapixel Images}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46090}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_curse_46512, title = {{Curse of High Dimensionality Issue in Transformer for Long Context Modeling}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46056}, }