PSSA, a plastic state space model, beats a parameter-matched transformer on held-out text and generates ~12x faster on CPU

I built a from-scratch architecture called PSSA (plastic state space architecture) and trained it against a parameter-matched transformer baseline on the same corpus, same 12.7M tokens, same tokenizer and schedule. Held-out results on a 198,939-token slice neither run saw: cross-entropy 3.997 vs 4.…

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1. 2026-09-30 00:31 · r/learnmachinelearning
   PSSA, a plastic state space model, beats a parameter-matched transformer on held-out text and generates ~12x faster on CPU
2. 2026-09-29 23:31 · r/artificial
   PSSA, a plastic state space model, beats a parameter-matched transformer on held-out text and generates ~12x faster on CPU
3. 2026-09-29 23:07 · r/deeplearning
   PSSA, a plastic state space model, beats a parameter-matched transformer on held-out text and generates ~12x faster on CPU