Limits RegistryPUBLIC RECORDLimits RegistryResearch Console →Explicit storage of the dense attention score or probability matrix grows quadratically with sequence length.
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Under the recorded transformer systems and scaling model, establish Theta(n^2).
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Limits Registry. LR-003621. Materialized dense-attention score memory. 2026.