arXiv Machine Learning

Self-Improving is Often Sudden: Enlightenment-style Finetuning for Large-Scale Models

arXiv:2607. 13395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The pursuit of autonomously self-improving models has attracted growing interest in the era of large-scale foundation models.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Rethinking the Role of Efficient Attention in Hybrid Architectures

arXiv:2606. 15378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern language models increasingly adopt hybrid architectures that combine full attention with efficient attention modules, such as sliding-window attention (SWA) and recurrent sequence mixers.

By Ziqing Qiao, Yinuo Xu, Chaojun Xiao, Zhou Su, Zihan Zhou, Yingfa Chen, Xiaoyue Xu, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu
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