SpanNorm: Reconciling Training Stability and Performance in Deep Transformers
arXiv:2601. 22580v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) hinges on the stable training of deep Transformer architectures.
arXiv:2601. 17257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a constrained optimization framework for training transformers that behave like optimization descent algorithms.
arXiv:2601. 22580v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) hinges on the stable training of deep Transformer architectures.
arXiv:2502. 00213v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformers are difficult to optimize with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and largely rely on adaptive optimizers such as Adam.
arXiv:2607. 10593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normalization is a critical component for stabilizing Transformer training, yet the choice between static strategies such as Layer Normalization (LN) and adaptive alternatives remains largely task-dependent.
arXiv:2606. 29256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, models based on the Transformer architecture have seen widespread applications and have become one of the core tools in the field of deep learning.
arXiv:2410. 24050v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large-scale pretraining of transformers has been central to the success of foundation models.
arXiv:2509. 23052v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a new meta-learning method to determine the optimal learning rate schedule for gradient descent.
arXiv:2601. 22002v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers achieve superior performance on many tasks, but impose heavy compute and memory requirements during inference.
arXiv:2607. 00479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based large models have demonstrated remarkable generalization abilities across different tasks by leveraging a context-aware attention module for in-context learning.
arXiv:2510. 09904v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite their widespread use, training deep Transformers can be unstable.
We derive finite-sample generalization bounds for Transformers trained with dynamic programming recursions. Building on the doubly lifted, measure-valued formulation of Transformer dynamics, we view data sets as probability laws on pairs of empirical input-output measures, allowing us to interpret the training problem as a finite-horizon Markovian control problem.
arXiv:2607. 11947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Typical semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods rely on distributional assumptions, and their performance degrades when these are violated.
arXiv:2605. 08193v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Normalization Equivariance (NE) is a structural prior that improves robustness to distribution shift in image-to-image tasks.