Kimi Delta Attention Brings Memory & Forget Gates: LSTMs Are Back

burny_tech · x · 2026-07-23

Developers noticed that Kimi's Delta Attention mechanism incorporates designs akin to memory and forget gates, prompting remarks that classic LSTM architectures are making a comeback in modern LLMs.

In the discussion, others pointed out that RNNs with looped transformers are also reviving, calling for the integration of forget gates into these modern structures and joking that Schmidhuber's influence is retrocausally everywhere.

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