arXiv AI
Jul 16
Data-Efficient Adaptation of LLMs via Attention Head Reweighting
arXiv:2607. 13425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning effectively from limited data is critical in domains like security where labeled examples are scarce.
Adaptive Head Budgeting for Efficient Multi-Head Attention
arXiv:2604. 22583v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-head attention enables Transformers to capture diverse representations, but all attention heads are typically activated for every input, regardless of task complexity.
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arXiv AI
Jun 17
Top-Theta Attention: Sparsifying Transformers by Compensated Thresholding
arXiv:2502. 08363v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Top-Theta (Top-$\theta$) Attention, a training-free method for sparsifying transformer attention during inference.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18
Complementary Attention Head Pruning for Efficient Transformers
arXiv:2606. 19150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The remarkable success of Transformer-based models in natural language processing stems from architectural scaling, which leads to a large number of parameters and hinders deployment in resource-constrained environments.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 29
Prism Transformer: Progressive Head Schedules for Hierarchical Attention Processing
arXiv:2606. 27449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-head attention conventionally partitions the hidden dimension equally across all heads at every layer, enforcing an identical representational subspace dimension (dh = dmodel/h) throughout the models depth.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8
Attention Sink in Transformers: A Survey on Utilization, Interpretation, and Mitigation
arXiv:2604. 10098v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As the foundational architecture of modern machine learning, Transformers have driven remarkable progress across diverse AI domains.
arXiv AI
Jun 29
Flexformer: Flexible Linear Transformer with Learnable Attention Kernel
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 AI
Aug 6
Calibrating Transformer Attention via Task-Space Sensitivity Feedback
arXiv:2512. 20661v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformer-based pre-trained language models (PLMs) excel in text classification but suffer from attention dilution and attention sink effects, forcing models to over-focus on task-irrelevant tokens.
arXiv AI
Jun 3
Distill-then-Replace: Efficient Task-Specific Hybrid Attention Model Construction
arXiv:2601. 11667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformer architectures deliver state-of-the-art accuracy via dense full-attention, but their quadratic time and memory complexity with respect to sequence length limits practical deployment.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30
Dense Local Dependencies Induce Attention-Logit Explosion and Training Instability During Long-Sequence Transformer Training
arXiv:2505. 15548v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autoregressive transformer language models frequently exhibit training instability when trained on long sequences, particularly under low-precision arithmetic.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30
A Mechanistic Study of Transformers Training Dynamics
arXiv:2410. 24050v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large-scale pretraining of transformers has been central to the success of foundation models.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4
Fast & Faithful Function Vectors
arXiv:2606. 05079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Function vectors (FVs) are task representations elicited during in-context learning that can be used to steer Large Language Models (LLMs).
arXiv AI
1d ago
Wiola 13M, a Gated Spiral Attention Architecture for Parameter Efficient Small Language Models
arXiv:2608. 14604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small language models in the ten to one hundred million parameter range are attractive for on device inference, rapid experimentation, and controlled scientific study, yet most of them reuse the standard transformer block without adaptation to the small scale regime.