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Figure 1: xLSTM 7B · diagram by Sebastian Raschka · click to zoom
RecurrentNXAI 🇦🇹 · March 17, 2025

xLSTM (7B)

Recurrent 7B language model that replaces self-attention with xLSTM blocks built around matrix memory.

Key detail

Stateful recurrent architecture aimed at fast long-context inference without an explicit context window.

Parameters

7B

Context

—

KV / token

0 B

Fact sheet

Scale
7B parameters
Context window
No explicit limit tokens
Decoder type
Recurrent
Attention
No self-attention; mLSTM recurrent layers with matrix memory
Layer mix
32 mLSTM
KV cache / token (bf16)
0 B · No cache
License
NXAI Community License Agreement
Released

Efficiency

Parameters active per token

100%

Dense: every weight runs for every token.

KV cache per token (bf16)

0 B

Not reported for this model.

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