arxivcs.LGcs.AIcs.ITstat.ML2026-07-19
Kernelized Linear Attention: Breaking the Capacity Wall with Symmetric Cones
Ayoub Ghriss, Sourav Chakraborty
Linear attention promises constant-time recurrent inference but degrades sharply on associative recall. We formulate attention recall as a spherical-packing problem and introduce Kernelized Linear Attention Activations (KATA), a framework whose feature maps are derived from first…