Functional Attention proposes linear-cost attention
Published on July 6, 2026, the paper describes representing query and key/value fields with learned bases and a compact matrix, reporting linear cost in the number of points.
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Published on July 6, 2026, the Functional Attention paper describes an architecture that represents query and key/value fields with learned bases and relates them through a compact matrix, rather than calculating scores for every pair. The paper reports linear cost in the number of points and results on PDE tasks, point-cloud segmentation, and operator learning.
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