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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>The Belief State Transformer · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2410.23506/</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/2410.23506/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>The Belief State Transformer — mentioned by kingstnap</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698420</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2410.23506:45698420</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:48:46 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;There are many many problems with attention. The softmax has issues regarding attention sinks [1]. The softmax also causes sharpness problems [2]. In general this decision boundary being Euclidean dot products isn&amp;#x27;t actually optimal for everything, there are many classes of problem where you want polyhedral cones [3]. Positional embedding are also janky af and so is rope tbh, I think Cannon layers are a more promising alternative for horizontal alignment [4]. I still think there is plenty of room to improve these things. But a lot of focus right now is unfortunately being spent on…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2410.23506/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>The Belief State Transformer — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202279</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2410.23506:43202279</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:12:32 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Belief State Transformer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2410.23506/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item></channel></rss>
