BitNet
BitNet is a family of large language model architectures developed by Microsoft Research Asia that constrain the weights of a transformer to extremely low bit-widths: initially a single bit ({-1, +1}) and…
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BitNet is a family of large language model architectures developed by Microsoft Research Asia that constrain the weights of a transformer to extremely low bit-widths: initially a single bit ({-1, +1}) and…
BitNet b1.58 is a ternary-weight large language model architecture from Microsoft Research in which every weight is constrained to one of three values, -1, 0, or +1
The Byte Latent Transformer (BLT) is a tokenizer-free large language model architecture introduced by researchers at Meta AI's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) group in December 2024.
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base is a text-only large language model released by Baidu on November 5, 2026.
GLM, short for General Language Model, is both a pretraining framework for language understanding and generation and the name of a model family developed by researchers associated with Tsinghua University and…
Jamba is a family of open-weight large language models from AI21 Labs, first released on March 28, 2024, and is the world's first production-grade language model built on a Mamba state space model (SSM)…
Jamba2 is the second generation of hybrid State Space Model and Transformer language models released by AI21 Labs on January 8, 2026.
Kimi Linear is a hybrid linear attention architecture published by Moonshot AI on October 30, 2025, together with a 48-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates 3 billion parameters per token.
Long-context language models are large language models engineered to accept and reason over inputs far larger than the few-thousand-token windows used by early transformer systems, with frontier models in 2026…
LongRoPE is a context-window extension technique for large language models (LLMs) that use rotary position embeddings (RoPE).
Mamba is a neural network architecture for sequence modeling that uses selective state space models (SSMs) to process sequential data in linear time with respect to sequence length
Native Sparse Attention (NSA) is a hardware-aligned, natively trainable sparse attention mechanism introduced in February 2025 by researchers at DeepSeek, Peking University and the University of Washington.
SparDA (Sparse Decoupled Attention) is an add-on architecture for long-context large language model inference proposed by researchers at NVIDIA in a paper posted to arXiv on 3 June 2026.
SubQ is a family of large language models and decision models built by Subquadratic, an AI startup that emerged from stealth on May 5, 2026
YOCO ("You Only Cache Once") is a decoder-decoder neural network architecture for large language models introduced by researchers at Microsoft Research and Tsinghua University in May 2024.