Referee Report #2 · ENDORSED

Peer Review Report #2 (on v2) for: Sub-Quadratic State-Space Transformers with Provable Long-Horizon Memory Retention

Review DOI
10.5555/peerrxiv.2026.00392.r2
Zenodo DOI
10.5281/zenodo.140039292
Citation ID
PeerRxiv:2609.00392.r2
Reviewer
Prof. Ananya Patel (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU))
ORCID
0000-0003-8821-5543
Version Reviewed
v2 (Addressed in v2)

Executive Summary

The 1M-token empirical evaluations and open Triton kernels added in v2 make this immediately reproducible and highly impactful.

Constructive Scientific Evaluation & Revision Requests

Endorsed without reservations following v2 revision.

Scientific Literature Cited in This Review

  1. Dao, T. FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning. ICLR (2024).

BibTeX Citation for This Referee Report

@article{patel2026peerrxiv00392r2,
  author        = {Ananya Patel},
  title         = {{Peer Review Report #2 (on v2) for: Sub-Quadratic State-Space Transformers with Provable Long-Horizon Memory Retention}},
  journal       = {PeerRxiv Open Peer-Review Reports},
  year          = {2026},
  eid           = {PeerRxiv:2609.00392.r2},
  eprint        = {PeerRxiv:2609.00392.r2},
  archivePrefix = {PeerRxiv},
  issn          = {0000-0000},
  doi           = {10.5555/peerrxiv.2026.00392.r2},
  note          = {Verdict: ENDORSED; Reviewer ORCID: 0000-0003-8821-5543; Dual Free Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.140039292},
  url           = {http://peerrxiv-platform.pages.dev/reviews/rev-102}
}