A Few Gaussians Is All You Need: SSOG-Attention That Steers Instead of Scores

I swapped the transformer's matchmaking service for a handful of Gaussians, and it beat content scoring without comparing a single pair of tokens. Crack open any vision transformer and you'll find the same machinery humming at its core: scaled dot-product attention (SDPA). Every token asks every other token "how much do I care about you?", and the answer is a big $N \times N$ matrix of similarity…