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Vision Mamba: A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy
Xiao Liu2025
Chenxu ZhangFuxiang Huang
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TLDR

This paper reviews a new way for computers to understand images and videos more efficiently, which could help them handle bigger and more complex visual tasks in the future.

Summary

1 Study Aim

The main goal of this paper is to provide a thorough review and classification of how the Mamba architecture, which is based on state space models (SSMs—a mathematical way to track changes over time), is being used for computer vision tasks. The authors aim to explain how Mamba works, compare it to earlier models, and show its impact on different types of visual data and tasks. Simply put: The paper wants to explain and organize what is known about using Mamba for computer vision.

2 Study Design

This research is a comprehensive survey. The authors collect, organize, and analyze published studies and technical developments about Mamba and its use in visual tasks. They review how Mamba builds on state space models, how it differs from older models like Transformers, and how it has been adapted for tasks such as image analysis, video understanding, and multimodal learning (combining images with other data types). The paper also creates a taxonomy—a system for categorizing—of Mamba-based vision models and their applications. Simply put: The authors read and organize many studies about Mamba to show how it is used for computer vision.

3 Findings

The survey reveals that Mamba, by using time-varying parameters in state space models, can efficiently handle long-range dependencies in visual data. This means it can process large images and long videos faster and with less computing power than older models like Transformers. The authors show that Mamba-based models are being used in many areas, including medical imaging and remote sensing, and often achieve strong results. They suggest that Mamba could become a leading architecture for future AI systems that need to understand complex visual information. The paper recommends further research to explore Mamba's full potential and to address current challenges in training and scaling these models. Simply put: The paper finds that Mamba is a fast and powerful tool for computer vision, and it could shape the future of AI in this area.

Abstract

State space model (SSM) is a mathematical model used to describe and analyze the behavior of dynamic systems. This model has witnessed numerous applications in several fields, including control theory, signal processing, economics, and machine learning. In the field of deep learning, SSMs are used to process sequence data, such as time series analysis, natural language processing (NLP), and video understanding. By mapping sequence data to state space, long-term dependencies in the data can be better captured. In particular, modern SSMs have shown strong representational capabilities in NLP, especially in long sequence modeling, while maintaining linear time complexity. In particular, based on the latest SSMs, Mamba merges time-varying parameters into SSMs toward efficient training and inference. Given its impressive efficiency and strong long-range dependency modeling capability, Mamba is expected to become a new AI architecture that may be capable of surpassing Transformer. Recently, a number of works attempt to study the potential of Mamba in various fields, such as general vision, multimodal learning, medical image analysis, and remote sensing image analysis, by extending Mamba from natural language domain to visual domain. To fully understand Mamba in the visual domain, we conduct a comprehensive survey and present a taxonomy study. This survey focuses on Mamba's application to a variety of visual tasks and data types, and discusses its predecessors, recent advances, and far-reaching impact on a wide range of domains.

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