PRISM: Parallel Residual Iterative Sequence Model

arXiv:2602.10796v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative sequence modeling faces a fundamental tension between the expressivity of Transformers and the efficiency of linear sequence models. Existing efficient architectures are theoretically bounded by shallow, single-step linear updates, while powerful iterative methods like Test-Time Training (TTT) break hardware parallelism due to two dimensions of serial dependency: token-level state reliance and step-level iteration loops. We propose PRISM (Parallel Residual Iterative Sequence Model) to resolve this tension. PRISM explicitly reconstructs the expressive gate x residual x direction iteration pattern of TTT in a parallelizable form. We employ a Write-Forget Decoupling strategy that isolates non-linearity within the injection operator. To bypass the serial dependency of explicit solvers, PRISM utilizes a two-stage proxy architecture: a short-convolution anchors the initial residual using local history energy, while a learned predictor estimates the refinement updates directly from the input. This design distills structural patterns associated with iterative correction into a parallelizable feedforward operator. Theoretically, we prove that this formulation achieves Rank-$L$ accumulation, structurally expanding the update manifold beyond the single-step Rank-$1$ bottleneck. Empirically, it achieves comparable performance to explicit optimization methods while achieving \textbf{174x higher throughput}. Codes are available in https://github.com/gpr-prism/prism/.

Abstract:Generative sequence modeling faces a fundamental tension between the expressivity of Transformers and the efficiency of linear sequence models. Existing efficient architectures are theoretically bounded by shallow, single-step linear updates, while powerful iterative methods like Test-Time Training (TTT) break hardware parallelism due to two dimensions of serial dependency: token-level state reliance and step-level iteration loops. We propose PRISM (Parallel Residual Iterative Sequence Model) to resolve this tension. PRISM explicitly reconstructs the expressive gate x residual x direction iteration pattern of TTT in a parallelizable form. We employ a Write-Forget Decoupling strategy that isolates non-linearity within the injection operator. To bypass the serial dependency of explicit solvers, PRISM utilizes a two-stage proxy architecture: a short-convolution anchors the initial residual using local history energy, while a learned predictor estimates the refinement updates directly from the input. This design distills structural patterns associated with iterative correction into a parallelizable feedforward operator. Theoretically, we prove that this formulation achieves Rank-$L$ accumulation, structurally expanding the update manifold beyond the single-step Rank-$1$ bottleneck. Empirically, it achieves comparable performance to explicit optimization methods while achieving \textbf{174x higher throughput}. Codes are available in this https URL.

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