The Vertical Attention Family

DenseFormer Feb 2024
MUDDFormer Feb 2025
DeepCrossAttn Feb 2025
AttnRes Mar 2026

Static scalar weights. Same for every input.

4 separate dynamic streams. Weights change per position.

Input-dependent, dimension-wise. ReLU gating per feature.

Softmax attention over depth. Weights sum to 1.