Worth tracking if you care about alternatives to the standard transformer playbook, especially the line of work trying to keep strong language-model performance while making inference and memory use much cheaper.
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RWKV and efficient sequence modeling
RWKV contributor focused on efficient sequence models
A useful RWKV page because his work does not stop at the original paper; it extends into multimodal and longer-context experiments that show how the RWKV line kept evolving afterward.
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March 18, 2026
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RWKV recurrent sequence models
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RWKV-CLIP and multimodal extensions
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Long-context efficient-sequence experimentation
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RWKV and efficient sequence modeling
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RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
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A strong open-model and data-centric page because his work sits close to the infrastructure that made OLMo and Dolma useful to the broader research community rather than just another benchmark-driven model release.
Co-authored RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era.
Useful because it turns an otherwise thin RWKV byline into a real systems profile: after the original paper, his public work tracks toward large-scale pretraining infrastructure, pipeline parallelism, and systems support for frontier-scale models.
Co-authored RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era.