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The Von-Neumann State-Space Transformer for neural decoding

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Cortical computation is strikingly low-dimensional: a handful of latent variables, carried in a neural population's activity, steer the higher-dimensional responses of individual neurons. Our aim is sample efficiency-models that decode well from limited data and at small parameter budgets. In a standard Transformer layer, the feed-forward block applies the same operator to every token. We suggest a von-Neumann inspired hypothesis of efficient computation as an alternative for neural decoding: a controller decodes an instruction and then executes a token-specific operator; the usual realization

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