State Space Models in 2026: Mamba-2 State Space Duality vs Transformer Attention
An authoritative mathematical and systems analysis of State Space Models. We examine Mamba-2 State Space Duality (SSD), Structured State Space (S4) recurrence, linear-time $O(N)$ inference scaling, and hybrid Mamba-Transformer production architectures.
9/2/202624 min read