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Hierarchical Memory Mamba Boosts Long Context

Hierarchical Memory Mamba (HMM) enhances long-sequence modeling by mimicking human memory, boosting retrieval and reasoning with minimal overhead.

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Diagram illustrating the hierarchical memory structure of HMM.
Conceptual overview of Hierarchical Memory Mamba's memory integration.

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  1. Mamba long context: recurrent states limit capacity, faltering with very long sequences
  2. Mimic human memory: inspired by human memory's hierarchical structure for better processing
  3. Hierarchical Memory Mamba: novel architecture built on pre-trained Mamba backbone with working memory
  4. Working memory: extracts slow, paragraph-level semantics from fast sensory information
  5. Long-term memory: semantic information compressed into persistent memory for task-relevant retrieval
  6. Overcomes bottleneck: solves representational limits in simpler recurrent linear attention models
  7. Cross-task generalization: demonstrates capability through parametric learning, unlike other Mamba variants
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Recurrent linear attention models like Mamba offer efficiency but falter with long sequences due to fixed-capacity recurrent states.

Mimicking Human Memory for Semantic Depth

To address this, researchers introduced Hierarchical Memory Mamba (HMM), a novel architecture inspired by human memory's hierarchical structure.

HMM builds on a pre-trained Mamba backbone, adding a lightweight working memory.

This working memory extracts slow, paragraph-level semantics from the fast sensory information captured in the backbone's hidden states.

The extracted semantic information is then compressed into persistent long-term memory, enabling task-relevant retrieval.

Bridging Representation Gaps for Generalization

This hierarchical processing overcomes the representational bottleneck inherent in simpler recurrent linear attention models.

Crucially, HMM demonstrates cross-task generalization through parametric learning, a capability not seen in other Mamba variants enhanced for long contexts.

Evaluations on challenging tasks like Passkey Retrieval and LongBench-E confirm its efficacy.

HMM improved retrieval success by 34.3% to 37.1% and reasoning accuracy by 1.6% to 14.2% over strong Mamba-based baselines.

This performance leap comes with a minimal cost, adding only 2% extra parameters and incurring negligible training overhead.

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