arXiv Machine Learning

Conditioned Initialization for Attention

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Taylor-Calibrate: Principled Initialization for Hybrid Linear Attention Distillation

arXiv:2606. 16429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid linear attention models offer an appealing path to faster long-context inference: they reduce the quadratic cost and KV-cache burden of full softmax attention while retaining much of the quality of Transformer models.

By Zhongzhu Zhou, Qingyang Wu, Junxiong Wang, Mayank Mishra, Shuaiwen Leon Song, Ben Athiwaratkun, Chenfeng Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Emergent Capabilities Arise Randomly from Learning Sparse Attention Patterns

arXiv:2606. 25010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural scaling laws for transformer language models predict smooth improvements in pretraining loss with increasing parameters, but downstream capabilities such as in-context learning are known to emerge abruptly past a certain model scale.

By Vatsal Baherwani, Zixi Chen, Shikai Qiu, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Pavel Izmailov