Attention ideas

Research ideas extracted from mathematics papers, categorized as Attention.

Unverified 2026

Hierarchical Polynomial Kernel Attention

Construct a sparse attention variant whose positional interaction kernel is piecewise polynomial rather than an arbitrary softmax score. Store key-value content in exact monomial moments within a spatial or learned-coordinate box hierarchy, then evaluate all queries from those moments without materializing the query-by-key matrix.

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Paper: Exact hierarchical algorithms for accelerating particle--mesh coupling in sparse-grid particle-in-cell methods arXiv:2608.19702