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deltafade

confirmedshipPython · PyTorchModel behavior & reasoningJuly 22, 2026

the question

At what exact rate does DeltaNet forget old associations, and how do Gated DeltaNet's two forgetting channels combine?

what came out

For isotropic keys the mean-square retention rate is exactly beta(2-beta)/d (measured 0.996016 at beta=0.3, d=128 over four million keys), not the mean-field beta/d, giving a horizon tau=d/(beta(2-beta)) linear in state dim. The explicit gate and implicit delta rule multiply exactly; the operator is non-expansive on beta in [0,2].

method & receipts

  • Result: confirmed
  • Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.

→ read the code and re-run it

github.com/v-code01/deltafade