Spectral Attention
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Spectral Attention has 64 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 17 references, with 6 live disagreements.
Mostly:rdfs:label(6), rdf:type(5), originally had separate projs(3)
Maturity scale
raw canonical shape-checked rule-derived certifiedUses Funk Hecke Harmonic Decompositionin disputeusesFunkHeckeHarmonicDecomposition
- Funk Hecke[17]all time · Part 105
- true[12]all time · Part 460
Lacksin disputelacks
- Gates Field[14]all time · Part 195
- Oscillator Coupling[13]all time · Part 197
Is Member ofin disputeisMemberOf
- Attention Variants Subsection[12]all time · Part 460
- Not Yet Ported Section[12]all time · Part 460
Originally Had Separate Projsin disputeoriginallyHadSeparateProjs
Rdfs:labelin disputerdfs:label
Rdf:typein disputerdf:type
- Attention Class[9]all time · 158
- Attention Mechanism[10]all time · 103
- Attention Type[4]all time · 316
- Attention Variant[3]all time · 105
- Code Component[16]all time · 118
Had Prior PplhadPriorPPL
- 754[6]all time · Part 318
Has Best Quality Moderate Speed at Rot0 1hasBestQualityModerateSpeedAtRot0-1
- PPL 457, Tok/s 56,736[6]all time · Part 318
Has Loss at Rot0 1hasLossAtRot0-1
- 6.12[6]all time · Part 318
Has Params at Rot0 1hasParamsAtRot0-1
- 16.9M[6]all time · Part 318
Has Ppl at Rot0 1hasPPLAtRot0-1
- 457[6]all time · Part 318
Has Tok Per S at Rot0 1hasTokPerSAtRot0-1
- 56736[6]all time · Part 318
Inbound mentions (15)
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attentionTypeAttention Type(1)
- Spectral Attention Rot 0 1 Result
ex:spectral-attention-rot-0-1-result
comparedToCompared to(1)
- Lohe Spherical Attention
ex:lohe-spherical-attention
dominatesEfficiencyFrontierAtRot0-1Dominates Efficiency Frontier at Rot0 1(1)
- Lohe Spherical Attention
ex:lohe-spherical-attention
hasImplementedHas Implemented(1)
- Python Harmonicmlx
ex:python-harmonicmlx
includeSpectralAttentionInclude Spectral Attention(1)
- Attention Classes
ex:attention-classes
includesSpectralAttentionIncludes Spectral Attention(1)
- Attention Variants
ex:attention-variants
is47PercentFasterThanSpectralAt0-1Is47 Percent Faster Than Spectral At0 1(1)
- Lohe Spherical Attention
ex:lohe-spherical-attention
isCurrentIs Current(1)
- Form One
ex:form-one
isViableAlternativeIs Viable Alternative(1)
- Lohe Spherical Attention
ex:lohe-spherical-attention
matchesSpectralAttentionSizeMatches Spectral Attention Size(1)
- Grouped V Projection
ex:grouped-v-projection
mentionsTopicMentions Topic(1)
- Log Entry 2026 03 11 20 31
ex:log-entry-2026-03-11-20-31
specifiesContextSpecifies Context(1)
- Message 2026 03 09 16 27
ex:message-2026-03-09-16-27
uses27PercentFewerParamsThanSpectralUses27 Percent Fewer Params Than Spectral(1)
- Lohe Spherical Attention
ex:lohe-spherical-attention
wasRelativeToWas Relative to(1)
- Xenonfun Doc
ex:xenonfun-doc
within27PercentPPLOfSpectralAt0-1Within27 Percent Ppl of Spectral At0 1(1)
- Lohe Spherical Attention
ex:lohe-spherical-attention
Other facts (38)
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| Predicate | Value | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Prioritizes Quality Over Speed | best quality, moderate speed | [6] |
| Wins on Quality at Both Strengths | rot=0.01 and 0.1 | [6] |
| Not Yet Ported From | Python Harmonicmlx | [12] |
| References Funk Hecke | Funk Hecke | [12] |
| Gets There More Completely | null | [5] |
| Matches Ffn Frequency Basis | null | [5] |
| Operates in | Same Frequency Basis As Ffn | [5] |
| Operates in Same Frequency Basis As | Ffn | [5] |
| Has Equivalent Tensor Shape | (B, T, 12, 8, 64) | [8] |
| Serves As Baseline | null | [8] |
| Splits V Into Per Head Slices | d_h=64 | [8] |
| Returns | Kv State | [14] |
| Is Spectral But Not | Kuramoto | [13] |
| Requires Calibration to | r=0.5 | [13] |
| Uses | Spectral Basis | [13] |
| Has Clean State Handling | One Kv State Tensor | [7] |
| Avoids Kv Cache | true | [1] |
| Implements Fused Qkv Projection | Qkv Proj | [11] |
| Not to Be Replaced by | Softmax | [11] |
| Is Attention Variant | true | [12] |
| Contextually Compared | Ffn Ring Modes | [2] |
| Is Inferior | due to calibration | [13] |
| Lacks Coupling | Kuramoto | [13] |
| Evaluated at Strength | both strengths | [4] |
| Wins on Quality | true | [4] |
| Has Current Perplexity | 457 | [4] |
| Has Previous Perplexity | 754 | [4] |
| Perplexity Change | 39% better | [4] |
| Operates in Basis | Same Frequency Basis As Ffn | [15] |
| Reason for Success | Resonant Pathway | [15] |
| Reaches State | DC Kuramoto State | [15] |
| Has State | Kv State Tensor | [9] |
| Has Method | Forward Method | [9] |
| Description | Funk-Hecke harmonic decomposition | [3] |
| Has Quality Ranking | Best Quality Option | [10] |
| Quality Adjusted Tokens Per Second | 8008 | [10] |
| Tokens Per Second | 210000 | [10] |
| Perplexity Score | 6.03 | [10] |
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References (17)
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[2026-03-08 19:26] xenonfun: ``` What They're Leaving on the Table 1. No mx.compile — Their benchmark and model run eagerly. From our experience with AnchorKAN at similar scale, compiled step gives ~1.5-2x throughput improvement on M…
- custom
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[2026-03-15 01:57] xenonfun: ``` rot_strength = 0.1 (new default) ┌────────────────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬────────┐ │ Attention │ Loss │ PPL │ Tok/s │ Params │ ├────────────────┼──────┼─────┼────────┼────────┤ │ spectral …
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[2026-03-09 16:27] xenonfun: ⏺ For batch prefill, each attention class's forward() currently runs _gated_cumsum over the full sequence and returns output — but throws away the final recurrent state. The step() method maintains that state …
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[2026-03-08 18:36] xenonfun: It appears your agents have actually already done all this work <@1211062099137265723> in your repo already. https://github.com/MonumentalSystems/harmonic-gpt/blob/master/docs/M3_DEPLOY_NOTES.md (files: Screens…
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ctx:discord/blah/watt-activation/part-197 - custom
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[2026-03-11 04:40] xenonfun: --- Run 2: lohe_spherical+lohe_v3+RotAdamW (1000 steps) Network-level: global_r≈0.107, β≈25, β_gate flat at 0.119. Notably flatter than spectral. ``` ┌─────┬───────────────────┬───────────┬─────────────┬─…
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[2026-03-08 23:43] xenonfun: Code Changes (3 important patterns) 1. Fused QKV projection in SpectralAttention - Separate q_proj, k_proj, v_proj → single qkv_proj = Linear(d_model, 3 * d_model). One matmul instead of three. We should po…
ctx:discord/blah/watt-activation/part-105
See also
- Ffn Ring Modes
- One Kv State Tensor
- Forward Method
- Best Quality Option
- Kv State Tensor
- Qkv Proj
- Attention Variants Subsection
- Not Yet Ported Section
- Kuramoto
- Gates Field
- Oscillator Coupling
- Softmax
- Python Harmonicmlx
- Same Frequency Basis As Ffn
- Ffn
- K Proj
- Q Proj
- V Proj
- Attention Class
- Attention Mechanism
- Attention Type
- Attention Variant
- Code Component
- DC Kuramoto State
- Resonant Pathway
- Funk Hecke
- Kv State
- Spectral Basis
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