The best target architecture is not a Mamba-3 hybrid. It is an OLMo-Hybrid-style interleaved Gated DeltaNet model with Mamba-3's hardware-aware recurrence upgrades ported into the GDN mixer.
The highest-value variant is:
Hybrid MIMO-HGDN: [GDN, GDN, GDN, Attention] × N, with negative-eigenvalue GDN preserved, rank-R MIMO updates added to the GDN state update, short convolutions retained for the first ablation, and optional data-dependent q/k rotations as a lower-priority expressivity experiment.