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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>MambaByte: Token-free Selective State Space Model · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.13660/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.13660/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>MambaByte: Token-free Selective State Space Model — mentioned by kristjansson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39470261</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2401.13660:39470261</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:28:42 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s been on the table e.g. [0][1]. But since this work depends on strong pre-trained model to extend from, I think it&amp;#x27;s open whether a training a byte-level model from scratch with similar tricks would result in the same performance (and whether any organization in the world has the GPUs and chutzpah to do pre-training at the long context lengths...) [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07185 [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13660&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.13660/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>MambaByte: Token-free Selective State Space Model — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136213</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2401.13660:39136213</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:22:07 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;MambaByte: Token-Free Selective State Space Model&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.13660/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>MambaByte: Token-free Selective State Space Model — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127050</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2401.13660:39127050</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 07:14:02 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;MambaByte: Token-Free Selective State Space Model&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.13660/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
