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Main Authors: Jiang, Jindong, Deng, Fei, Singh, Gautam, Lee, Minseung, Ahn, Sungjin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12272
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author Jiang, Jindong
Deng, Fei
Singh, Gautam
Lee, Minseung
Ahn, Sungjin
author_facet Jiang, Jindong
Deng, Fei
Singh, Gautam
Lee, Minseung
Ahn, Sungjin
contents Recent State Space Models (SSMs) such as S4, S5, and Mamba have shown remarkable computational benefits in long-range temporal dependency modeling. However, in many sequence modeling problems, the underlying process is inherently modular and it is of interest to have inductive biases that mimic this modular structure. In this paper, we introduce SlotSSMs, a novel framework for incorporating independent mechanisms into SSMs to preserve or encourage separation of information. Unlike conventional SSMs that maintain a monolithic state vector, SlotSSMs maintains the state as a collection of multiple vectors called slots. Crucially, the state transitions are performed independently per slot with sparse interactions across slots implemented via the bottleneck of self-attention. In experiments, we evaluate our model in object-centric learning, 3D visual reasoning, and long-context video understanding tasks, which involve modeling multiple objects and their long-range temporal dependencies. We find that our proposed design offers substantial performance gains over existing sequence modeling methods. Project page is available at https://slotssms.github.io/
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spellingShingle Slot State Space Models
Jiang, Jindong
Deng, Fei
Singh, Gautam
Lee, Minseung
Ahn, Sungjin
Artificial Intelligence
Recent State Space Models (SSMs) such as S4, S5, and Mamba have shown remarkable computational benefits in long-range temporal dependency modeling. However, in many sequence modeling problems, the underlying process is inherently modular and it is of interest to have inductive biases that mimic this modular structure. In this paper, we introduce SlotSSMs, a novel framework for incorporating independent mechanisms into SSMs to preserve or encourage separation of information. Unlike conventional SSMs that maintain a monolithic state vector, SlotSSMs maintains the state as a collection of multiple vectors called slots. Crucially, the state transitions are performed independently per slot with sparse interactions across slots implemented via the bottleneck of self-attention. In experiments, we evaluate our model in object-centric learning, 3D visual reasoning, and long-context video understanding tasks, which involve modeling multiple objects and their long-range temporal dependencies. We find that our proposed design offers substantial performance gains over existing sequence modeling methods. Project page is available at https://slotssms.github.io/
title Slot State Space Models
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12272