arXiv AI

LaPrune: Controllable Differentiable Sparsity at Million Scale

arXiv:2608. 04057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Top-$k$ selection determines which components of a sparse model remain active.

arXiv AI
Jun 3

DTop-p MoE: Sparsity-Controlled Dynamic Top-p MoE for Foundation Model Pre-training

arXiv:2512. 13996v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts architectures are essential for scaling model capacity efficiently, yet the standard Top-$k$ routing imposes a rigid sparsity pattern that ignores the intrinsic variance in token difficulty and layer-specific computational needs.

By Can Jin, Hongwu Peng, Mingcan Xiang, Qixin Zhang, Xiangchi Yuan, Amit Hasan, Ohi Dibua, Yifan Gong, Yan Kang, Dimitris N. Metaxas
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

On the robustness of noisy solutions in non-convex neural networks

arXiv:2607. 27000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimization in non-convex neural network models is strongly influenced by the geometry of the solution space: sparse, isolated, point-like clusters are typically algorithmically inaccessible, whereas wide and flat regions can be found efficiently despite being relatively rare.

By Enrico M. Malatesta, Alessandra Passalacqua, Riccardo Zecchina
arXiv AI
Jun 12

MiniMax Sparse Attention

arXiv:2606. 13392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-long-context capability is becoming indispensable for frontier LLMs: agentic workflows, repository-scale code reasoning, and persistent memory all require the model to jointly attend over hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens, yet the quadratic cost of softmax attention makes this untenable at deployment scale.

By Xunhao Lai, Weiqi Xu, Yufeng Yang, Qiaorui Chen, Yang Xu, Lunbin Zeng, Xiaolong Li, Haohai Sun, Haichao Zhu, Vito Zhang, Pengyu Zhao