Mamba Architecture
State-space model with O(n) complexity vs Transformers' O(n²).
Install
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- Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs14.2k
- Category
- Design
- Updated
- 25d ago
- License
- MIT
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What it does
State-space model with O(n) complexity vs Transformers' O(n²). 5× faster inference, million-token sequences, no KV cache. Selective SSM with hardware-aware design. Mamba-1 (d_state=16) and Mamba-2 (d_state=128, multi-head). Models 130M-2.8B on HuggingFace.
Mamba - Selective State Space Models
Quick start
Mamba is a state-space model architecture achieving O(n) linear complexity for sequence modeling.
Installation:
# Install causal-conv1d (optional, for efficiency)
pip install causal-conv1d>=1.4.0
# Install Mamba
pip install mamba-ssm
# Or both together
pip install mamba-ssm[causal-conv1d]
Prerequisites: Linux, NVIDIA GPU, PyTorch 1.12+, CUDA 11.6+
Basic usage (Mamba block):
import torch
from mamba_ssm import Mamba
batch, length, dim = 2, 64, 16
x = torch.randn(batch, length, dim).to("cuda")
model = Mamba(
d_model=dim, # Model dimension
d_state=16, # SSM state dimension
d_conv=4, # Conv1d kernel size
expand=2 # Expansion factor
).to("cuda")
y = model(x) # O(n) complexity!
assert y.shape == x.shape
Common workflows
Workflow 1: Language model with Mamba-2
Complete LM with generation:
from mamba_ssm.models.mixer_seq_simple import MambaLMHeadModel
from mamba_ssm.models.config_mamba import MambaConfig
import torch
# Configure Mamba-2 LM
config = MambaConfig(
d_model=1024, # Hidden dimension
n_layer=24, # Number of layers
vocab_size=50277, # Vocabulary size
ssm_cfg=dict(
layer="Mamba2", # Use Mamba-2
d_state=128, # Larger state for Mamba-2
headdim=64, # Head dimension
ngroups=1 # Number of groups
)
)
model = MambaLMHeadModel(config, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
# Generate text
input_ids = torch.randint(0, 1000, (1, 20), device="cuda", dtype=torch.long)
output = model.generate(
input_ids=input_ids,
max_length=100,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.9
)
Workflow 2: Use pretrained Mamba models
Load from HuggingFace:
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from mamba_ssm.models.mixer_seq_simple import MambaLMHeadModel


