ResearchResearch paperLarge Language Models1 source · Oct 8, 2026

TraceRelay: Attention-Aligned Recurrence over Rolling Traces

We present TraceRelay, an attention-aligned recurrent architecture that distributes persistent representations over a rolling sequence of low-dimensional traces.

Key points

  • Local right looking attention forms increments from lower-layer representations; delivery is delayed until all attended inputs are in the causal past.
  • A fixed additive phase recurrence accumulates the delayed increments, and left-looking attention reads the resulting residual augmented stream.
  • A stride-wise prefix sum supports parallel prefill and bounded-buffer continuation.
  • We study 36 small-model runs on Equal Repeats, bounded Dyck closing-type prediction, and causal Most-Freq generation, using three seeds per setting.

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  • [1]TraceRelay: Attention-Aligned Recurrence over Rolling Traces
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 11:34 AM
    We present TraceRelay, an attention-aligned recurrent architecture that distributes persistent representations over a rolling sequence of low-dimensional traces.
    Local right looking attention forms increments from lower-layer representations; delivery is delayed until all attended inputs are in the causal past.

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