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Sep 17, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

PolaFormer++: Polarity-Aware Linear Attention with Channel-Wise Spikiness Sets New Benchmark

PolaFormer++ introduces a polarity-aware linear attention mechanism with channel-wise spiky feature mapping (PaCS) that solves negative value loss and high entropy issues, achieving state-of-the-art results across six vision tasks including classification, detection, segmentation, diffusion, 3D synthesis, and super-resolution.