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ZeroS: Zero‑Sum Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers

NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight

Jiecheng Lu, Xu Han, Yan Sun, Viresh Pati, Yubin Kim, Siddhartha Somani, Shihao Yang

Introduces Zero‑Sum Linear Attention (ZeroS), which removes the uniform zero‑order term and reweights residuals to enable stable positive/negative attention weights, allowing contrastive operations within a single layer while retaining O(N) complexity.

A zero‑sum reparameterization of linear attention that avoids uniform accumulation bias and allows contrastive operations within a single layer, narrowing the gap with softmax attention under linear complexity.