arXiv:2606. 16112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Residual architectures are ubiquitous in deep learning, but they suffer from a subtle structural limitation: the norm of the residual stream can grow rapidly with depth.
By Tom\'as Figliolia, Beren Millidge
arXiv:2606. 26744v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present HyperDFlash, a block-parallel speculative decoding framework tailored to DeepSeek-V4's Hyper-Connections (HC).
By Luxi Lin, Shuang Peng, Rui Ma, Junhao Hua, Shuwei Fan, Zhengda Qin, Qiang Wang, Hongjian Sun, Fangmin Chen, Songwei Liu
arXiv:2608. 08888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive transformers compute along two axes: horizontally across generated tokens, and vertically through model depth.
By Xi Wang, Ziyang Cai, Zheng Zhan, Harry Dong, Ying Fan, Gustavo de Rosa, Tim Pearce, John Langford
arXiv:2606. 26744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HyperDFlash, a block-parallel speculative decoding framework tailored to the novel multi-hyper-connection (MHC) architecture proposed by DeepSeek-V4.
By Luxi Lin, Shuang Peng, Rui Ma, Junhao Hua, Shuwei Fan, Zhengda Qin, Qiang Wang, Hongjian Sun, Fangmin Chen, Songwei Liu
arXiv:2601. 22954v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to purely autoregressive language models because they can decode multiple tokens in parallel.
By Yuezhou Hu, Harman Singh, Monishwaran Maheswaran, Haocheng Xi, Coleman Hooper, Jintao Zhang, Aditya Tomar, Michael W. Mahoney, Sewon Min, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Kurt Keutzer, Amir Gholami, Chenfeng Xu
arXiv:2607. 07706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The quadratic cost of causal self-attention severely bottlenecks long-context transformer inference.
By Anna Kuzina, Paul N. Whatmough, Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi
arXiv:2608. 15062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling transformer language models creates an inherent tension between expressivity and memory efficiency.
By Amr Hegazy, Amr Alanwar, Mostafa Elhoushi
arXiv:2606. 27538v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the context-ready transformer, a new recurrent neural network architecture built from a D-layer transformer block that pre-contextualizes each token before it enters the block.
By Mahesh Godavarti
arXiv:2604. 03444v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work has demonstrated the potential of non-transformer language models, especially linear recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and hybrid models that mix recurrence and attention.
By William Merrill, Yanhong Li, Tyler Romero, Anej Svete, Caia Costello, Pradeep Dasigi, Dirk Groeneveld, David Heineman, Bailey Kuehl, Nathan Lambert, Chuan Li, Kyle Lo, Saumya Malik, DJ Matusz, Benjamin Minixhofer, Jacob Morrison, Luca Soldaini, Finbarr Timbers, Pete Walsh, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Ashish Sabharwal
arXiv:2606. 01774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) large language models (LLMs) have achieved broad practical success, but sequential decoding remains a key bottleneck for low-latency deployment.
By Yuchen Zhu, Jing Shi, Chongjian Ge, Hao Tan, Yiran Xu, Wanrong Zhu, Jason Kuen, Koustava Goswami, Rajiv Jain, Yongxin Chen, Molei Tao, Jiuxiang Gu
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.
By Xiaojie Xia, Huigang Zhang, Chaoliang Zhong, Jun Sun, Yusuke Oishi
arXiv:2601. 22580v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) hinges on the stable training of deep Transformer architectures.
By Chao Wang, Bei Li, Jiaqi Zhang, Xinyu Liu, Yuchun Fan, Linkun Lyu, Xin Chen, Jingang Wang, Tong Xiao, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai