# Vision Mamba backbones

Area: [State-space sequence models (S4, Mamba)](https://mlsanity.com/ssm/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/ssm/vision-mamba-backbones/

## Key facts

- Vision Mamba backbones: 212 papers on arXiv since 2024 (data through 7 Oct 2026).
- 109 of its 212 mapped papers (51%) cite “Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model” (2024, arXiv 2401.09417).
- 56 of its 212 mapped papers (26%) cite “LocalMamba: Visual State Space Model with Windowed Selective Scan” (2024, arXiv 2403.09338).
- 4 new papers 18 Sep–7 Oct.

## Most cited here

- [Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.09417/) (2024), cited by 109 papers here
- [LocalMamba: Visual State Space Model with Windowed Selective Scan](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.09338/) (2024), cited by 56 papers here
- [EfficientVMamba: Atrous Selective Scan for Light Weight Visual Mamba](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.09977/) (2024), cited by 41 papers here
- [PlainMamba: Improving Non-Hierarchical Mamba in Visual Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.17695/) (2024), cited by 41 papers here
- [MambaVision: A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision Backbone](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.08083/) (2024), cited by 35 papers here
- [MambaOut: Do We Really Need Mamba for Vision?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.07992/) (2024), cited by 21 papers here
- [VL-Mamba: Exploring State Space Models for Multimodal Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.13600/) (2024), cited by 19 papers here
- [Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.14520/) (2024), cited by 14 papers here
- [SiMBA: Simplified Mamba-Based Architecture for Vision and Multivariate Time series](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.15360/) (2024), cited by 14 papers here
- [Demystify Mamba in Vision: A Linear Attention Perspective](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.16605/) (2024), cited by 14 papers here

## New (18 Sep–7 Oct)

- [FedSSMCoOp: SSM Encoders for light-weight Federated Prompt Learning for Few-shot Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.09907/) (2026-10-07)
- [RIPE-MambaSpike: Resolution-Independent Spiking-State-Space Interfaces for Parameter-Efficient Event-Based Vision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.32537/) (2026-09-26)
- [CMAMBADEPTH: Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation with Channel Mamba and Hybrid Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.24494/) (2026-09-21)
- [LiAuto-MindViT: A Hybrid Vision Backbone with Adaptive Bidirectional Mamba](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.24337/) (2026-09-21)