This document summarizes a research paper on modeling long-range dependencies in sequence data using structured state space models and deep learning. The proposed S4 model (1) derives recurrent and convolutional representations of state space models, (2) improves long-term memory using HiPPO matrices, and (3) efficiently computes state space model convolution kernels. Experiments show S4 outperforms existing methods on various long-range dependency tasks, achieves fast and memory-efficient computation comparable to efficient Transformers, and performs competitively as a general sequence model.