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DeltaLog: Deferred Materialization of Recurrent States for Linear Attention Decoding

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TL;DR - DeltaLog speeds linear-attention decoding by storing recent recurrent-state updates in a bounded log and periodically merging them into a dense base state. This preserves model semantics while reducing memory traffic and improving serving performance.

  • Replaces most full recurrent-state write-backs with compact update appends.
  • Supports GDN, KDA, and RWKV6 in a prototype serving stack.
  • Accelerates recurrent-state update kernels by up to 1.86× and cuts write traffic by up to 7.83×.
  • Delivers 1.05–1.20× end-to-end speedups over dense recurrent baselines.

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DeltaLog: Deferred Materialization of Recurrent States for Linear Attention Decoding

arXiv cs.DC Junqing Lin, Jingwei Sun, Guangzhong Sun 2026-08-16 arXiv:2608.15533
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TL;DR - DeltaLog speeds linear-attention decoding by storing recent recurrent-state updates in a bounded log and periodically merging them into a dense base state. This preserves model semantics while reducing memory traffic and improving serving performance.

  • Replaces most full recurrent-state write-backs with compact update appends.
  • Supports GDN, KDA, and RWKV6 in a prototype serving stack.
  • Accelerates recurrent-state update kernels by up to 1.86× and cuts write traffic by up to 7.83×.
  • Delivers 1.05–1.20× end-to-end speedups over dense recurrent baselines.
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