arXiv:2606. 08327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard transformers apply self-attention uniformly at every layer and token, regardless of whether the input requires dynamic cross-token interaction.
arXiv:2607.09086v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Subtoken Vision Transformer (SubViT), a selective image tokenization method for fine-grained visual recognition. Standard Vision Transfo...
The paper introduces QK Product Steering, a data‑free, training‑free method that edits the query‑key product in vision‑language models to reduce object hallucination. By suppressing a few dominant singular modes in selected middle layers and mapping the edited product back to query weights, the approach lowers hallucination rates without affecting inference cost. Experiments on three GQA‑based VLMs show a 4.0% average reduction in CHAIR$_s$, with the effect localized to symmetric mutual‑attention channels.
Attention-Aware Routing (AAR) augments the router in Mixture-of-Experts language models with temporal and spectral features derived from a sliding window of attention weights, thereby separating contextual information from the token’s hidden state. By keeping the base transformer frozen and training only routing parameters, AAR achieves a +3.37‑point improvement on GSM8K over a routing‑only baseline and demonstrates that routing changes propagate through the residual stream to reshape attention without directly updating the attention mechanism. The method also reduces long diverging generations, shows depth‑sensitivity affecting retrieval versus reasoning, and offers a controlled probe of routing‑relevant information across layers.
arXiv:2607. 07478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FFT-based spectral preprocessing of learned query-key (Q/K) projections substantially improves transformer attention on character-level language modelling.
arXiv:2606. 27748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer models rely on attention mechanism to capture long-range dependencies but suffer from quadratic complexity, limiting their scalability to long sequences.
arXiv:2608. 04678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Papers 1-2 of the Kathleen series showed that a byte-level, attention-free architecture built from a wavetable encoder and multi-scale reverberant state can match strong baselines on classification at ~450-700K parameters, without pretraining.
arXiv:2607. 24025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains; however, directly applying their standard self-attention mechanism to recommendation often yields suboptimal performance, sometimes even trailing behind well-designed simple recommendation models.
The paper introduces OASIS, a method designed to stabilize dual‑normalized attention‑residual architectures by employing explicit null routing and token‑to‑depth null coupling. OASIS mitigates attention sinks and activation outliers, improving low‑bit quantization performance across several language‑model backbones. Empirical results show significant reductions in attention norms and perplexity, with notable gains on long‑context benchmarks.
The paper demonstrates that sharing a deep encoder alone does not eliminate the confounding effects in task-comparison scores. By introducing a conditional two‑discriminator discrepancy within the embedding space, the authors achieve robust detection of task changes, maintaining stability under input rotations and accurately tracking label‑permutation drift. This approach, integrated into a mixture‑of‑heads framework, outperforms traditional novelty triggers and generalizes across multiple backbones and datasets, including ImageNet‑21k ViT‑B/16, DINOv2, and CIFAR‑100.
arXiv:2609.13141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training attention sparsification reduces the quadratic cumulative attention cost of pretrained Transformers by selecting a small set of context u...
arXiv:2607. 16213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) generate text autoregressively, relying on a key-value (KV) cache whose memory footprint grows linearly with context length, creating a major bottleneck.
arXiv:2608.22996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well on diverse vision-language tasks, but transformer-based visual encoders split images into fixed-resolution s...