The Path of Averaging: Tracing the Line from Attention to TTT
SonglinYang4 · x · 2026-11-01
A repost of Jianlin Lin's technical article The Path of Averaging: From Attention to TTT, which traces how the idea of averaging connects Attention mechanisms to Test-Time Training, offering a unified lens on the evolution of sequence modeling architectures.
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