Matrix Zonotopic Attention: A Context-Adaptive Value Projection for Set Transformers

arXiv:2608.05472 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-05 · Read on arXiv

Zhen Zhang, Amr Alanwar

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-05

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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