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Mamba in Vision: A Comprehensive Survey of Techniques and Applications

arXiv 2410.03105 ↗First posted 4 Oct 2024cs.CV cs.AI cs.CLcited by 18

On the map: State-space sequence models (S4, Mamba) → Vision Mamba backbones

Abstract (arXiv)

Mamba is emerging as a novel approach to overcome the challenges faced by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) in computer vision. While CNNs excel at extracting local features, they often struggle to capture long-range dependencies without complex architectural modifications. In contrast, ViTs effectively model global relationships but suffer from high computational costs due to the quadratic complexity of their self-attention mechanisms. Mamba addresses these limitations by leveraging Selective Structured State Space Models to effectively capture long-range dependencies with linear computational complexity. This survey analyzes the unique contributions, computational benefits, and applications of Mamba models while also identifying challenges and potential future research directions. We provide a foundational resource for advancing the understanding and growth of Mamba models in computer vision. An overview of this work is available at https://github.com/maklachur/Mamba-in-Computer-Vision.

Key facts. Cited by 18 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Vision Mamba backbones, one of 10 directions in State-space sequence models (S4, Mamba). Builds on 165 of its 209 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 4 Oct 2024.

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165 of 209 references.

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  1. 2024GroupMamba: Efficient Group-Based Visual State Space Model18 Jul
  2. 2024MambaVision: A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision Backbone10 Jul
  3. 2024Mamba-based Light Field Super-Resolution with Efficient Subspace Scanning23 Jun
  4. 2024MHS-VM: Multi-Head Scanning in Parallel Subspaces for Vision Mamba10 Jun
  5. 2024Vim-F: Visual State Space Model Benefiting from Learning in the Frequency Domain29 May
  6. 2024Demystify Mamba in Vision: A Linear Attention Perspective26 May
  7. 2024Meteor: Mamba-based Traversal of Rationale for Large Language and Vision Models24 May
  8. 2024Mamba-R: Vision Mamba ALSO Needs Registers23 May
  9. 2024Vision Mamba: A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy7 May
  10. 2024DVMSR: Distillated Vision Mamba for Efficient Super-Resolution5 May
  11. 2024Visual Mamba: A Survey and New Outlooks29 Apr
  12. 2024A Novel State Space Model with Local Enhancement and State Sharing for Image Fusion14 Apr
12 more
  1. 2024DGMamba: Domain Generalization via Generalized State Space Model11 Apr
  2. 2024Sigma: Siamese Mamba Network for Multi-Modal Semantic Segmentation5 Apr
  3. 2024Heracles: A Hybrid SSM-Transformer Model for High-Resolution Image and Time-Series Analysis26 Mar
  4. 2024PlainMamba: Improving Non-Hierarchical Mamba in Visual Recognition26 Mar
  5. 2024SiMBA: Simplified Mamba-Based Architecture for Vision and Multivariate Time series22 Mar
  6. 2024Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference21 Mar
  7. 2024VL-Mamba: Exploring State Space Models for Multimodal Learning20 Mar
  8. 2024EfficientVMamba: Atrous Selective Scan for Light Weight Visual Mamba15 Mar
  9. 2024LocalMamba: Visual State Space Model with Windowed Selective Scan14 Mar
  10. 2024Res-VMamba: Fine-Grained Food Category Visual Classification Using Selective State Space Models with Deep Residual Learning24 Feb
  11. 2024Pan-Mamba: Effective pan-sharpening with State Space Model19 Feb
  12. 2024Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model17 Jan

Other references · 141

  1. 2017Attention Is All You Needcited by 60,361
  2. 2020An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scalecited by 30,186
  3. 2023Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spacescited by 4,718
  4. 2021Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spacescited by 2,465
  5. 2017The Kinetics Human Action Video Datasetcited by 1,909
  6. 2015Convolutional LSTM Network: A Machine Learning Approach for Precipitation Nowcastingcited by 1,436
  7. 2022CoCa: Contrastive Captioners are Image-Text Foundation Modelscited by 1,274
  8. 2024VMamba: Visual State Space Modelcited by 969
  9. 2021MobileViT: Light-weight, General-purpose, and Mobile-friendly Vision Transformercited by 642
  10. 2020HiPPO: Recurrent Memory with Optimal Polynomial Projectionscited by 605
  11. 2024U-Mamba: Enhancing Long-range Dependency for Biomedical Image Segmentationcited by 419
  12. 2024VideoMamba: State Space Model for Efficient Video Understandingcited by 328
38 more
  1. 2024VM-UNet: Vision Mamba UNet for Medical Image Segmentationcited by 287
  2. 2024SegMamba: Long-range Sequential Modeling Mamba For 3D Medical Image Segmentationcited by 266
  3. 2024Swin-UMamba: Mamba-based UNet with ImageNet-based pretrainingcited by 179
  4. 2024PointMamba: A Simple State Space Model for Point Cloud Analysiscited by 167
  5. 2023Domain Specialization as the Key to Make Large Language Models Disruptive: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 135
  6. 2024Mamba-UNet: UNet-Like Pure Visual Mamba for Medical Image Segmentationcited by 133
  7. 2024ChangeMamba: Remote Sensing Change Detection With Spatiotemporal State Space Modelcited by 120
  8. 2024Motion Mamba: Efficient and Long Sequence Motion Generationcited by 112
  9. 2024Video Mamba Suite: State Space Model as a Versatile Alternative for Video Understandingcited by 108
  10. 2024DeMamba: AI-Generated Video Detection on Million-Scale GenVideo Benchmarkcited by 92
  11. 2024The Hidden Attention of Mamba Modelscited by 91
  12. 2024VmambaIR: Visual State Space Model for Image Restorationcited by 90
  13. 2024MedMamba: Vision Mamba for Medical Image Classificationcited by 88
  14. 2024Mamba-ND: Selective State Space Modeling for Multi-Dimensional Datacited by 84
  15. 2024RS-Mamba for Large Remote Sensing Image Dense Predictioncited by 81
  16. 2024FusionMamba: Dynamic Feature Enhancement for Multimodal Image Fusion with Mambacited by 81
  17. 2024Point Mamba: A Novel Point Cloud Backbone Based on State Space Model with Octree-Based Ordering Strategycited by 73
  18. 2024DiM: Diffusion Mamba for Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 72
  19. 2019Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs): A gentle Introduction and Overviewcited by 68
  20. 2024Fusion-Mamba for Cross-modality Object Detectioncited by 67
  21. 2024Point Cloud Mamba: Point Cloud Learning via State Space Modelcited by 66
  22. 2024Voxel Mamba: Group-Free State Space Models for Point Cloud based 3D Object Detectioncited by 66
  23. 2022Dilated Neighborhood Attention Transformercited by 64
  24. 2024Mamba-360: Survey of State Space Models as Transformer Alternative for Long Sequence Modelling: Methods, Applications, and Challengescited by 64
  25. 2024Multi-Scale VMamba: Hierarchy in Hierarchy Visual State Space Modelcited by 62
  26. 2024MiM-ISTD: Mamba-in-Mamba for Efficient Infrared Small Target Detectioncited by 60
  27. 2024State Space Model for New-Generation Network Alternative to Transformers: A Surveycited by 59
  28. 2024Retinexmamba: Retinex-based Mamba for Low-light Image Enhancementcited by 59
  29. 2024Mamba3D: Enhancing Local Features for 3D Point Cloud Analysis via State Space Modelcited by 57
  30. 2024Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstructioncited by 56
  31. 2024LightM-UNet: Mamba Assists in Lightweight UNet for Medical Image Segmentationcited by 54
  32. 2024Vivim: a Video Vision Mamba for Medical Video Segmentationcited by 52
  33. 2024CDMamba: Incorporating Local Clues into Mamba for Remote Sensing Image Binary Change Detectioncited by 48
  34. 2024MambaTalk: Efficient Holistic Gesture Synthesis with Selective State Space Modelscited by 46
  35. 2024nnMamba: 3D Biomedical Image Segmentation, Classification and Landmark Detection with State Space Modelcited by 45
  36. 2024Scalable Diffusion Models with State Space Backbonecited by 45
  37. 2024UltraLight VM-UNet: Parallel Vision Mamba Significantly Reduces Parameters for Skin Lesion Segmentationcited by 45
  38. 2024U-shaped Vision Mamba for Single Image Dehazingcited by 40

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 3; 2025: 6; 2026: 9.

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  1. 2025FlowState: Sampling-Rate-Equivariant Time-Series Forecastingcited by 8
  2. 2026MambaLiteUNet: Cross-Gated Adaptive Feature Fusion for Robust Skin Lesion Segmentationcited by 4
  3. 2025DH-Mamba: Exploring Dual-domain Hierarchical State Space Models for MRI Reconstructioncited by 3
  4. 2025Global-Aware Monocular Semantic Scene Completion with State Space Modelscited by 3
  5. 2025HiFi-Mamba: Dual-Stream W-Laplacian Enhanced Mamba for High-Fidelity MRI Reconstructioncited by 3
  6. 2024MambaU-Lite: A Lightweight Model based on Mamba and Integrated Channel-Spatial Attention for Skin Lesion Segmentationcited by 2
  7. 2024Exploring Graph Mamba: A Comprehensive Survey on State-Space Models for Graph Learningcited by 2
  8. 2025Selecting and Pruning: A Differentiable Causal Sequentialized State-Space Model for Two-View Correspondence Learningcited by 1
  9. 2025Mamba-Based Ensemble learning for White Blood Cell Classificationcited by 1
  10. 2024When Mamba Meets xLSTM: An Efficient and Precise Method with the xLSTM-VMUNet Model for Skin lesion Segmentationcited by 0
  11. 2026Mam-App: A Novel Parameter-Efficient Mamba Model for Apple Leaf Disease Classificationcited by 0
  12. 2026XtraLight-MedMamba for Classification of Neoplastic Tubular Adenomascited by 0
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  1. 2026ABMAMBA: Multimodal Large Language Model with Aligned Hierarchical Bidirectional Scan for Efficient Video Captioningcited by 0
  2. 2026ViM-Q: Scalable Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Vision Mamba Model Inference on FPGAcited by 0
  3. 2026State Space Models Meet Remote Sensing: A Surveycited by 0
  4. 2026Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification with Prompt-S6 and Semantic-Aware Knowledge Guidancecited by 0
  5. 2026GET: Generative Embedding Translation for Medical Image Segmentationcited by 0
  6. 2026Multimodal Routing and Region Refinement for Language-Guided Medical Image Segmentationcited by 0

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