arXivJiefang Xiao, Maolin Gao, Simon Weber, Guandao Yang, Daniel CremersFri, May 29, 2026, 10:22 AM PDT

score 14.7

New attention method treats continuous data as functions, not tokens

Original: Functional Attention: From Pairwise Affinities to Functional Correspondences

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