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.
By Yawei Liu
arXiv:2601.06787v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to contain significant redundancy, yet a systematic explanation for why certain components, particularly in...
By Jaewon Sok, Jewon Yeom, Seonghyeon Park, Jeongjae Park, Taesup Kim
arXiv:2607. 24017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The empirical success of attention mechanism in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often obscures its inherent, subtle flaws.
By Pengkun Jiao, Bin Zhu, Jingjing Chen, Yu-gang Jiang
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.
By Suvadeep Hajra
arXiv:2609.28117v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a gradient-based head attribution strategy where the Token-level Max-Margin loss is backpropagated to the attention maps....
By Pawe{\l} M\k{a}ka, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes, Gerasimos Spanakis
arXiv:2607. 23054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), introduced in DeepSeek-V2, compresses key-value pairs through a shared low-rank bottleneck (cKV), achieving 81% KV-cache reduction during inference.
By Dhruvil S, Fenil Sojitra, Ravirajsinh Chauhan
arXiv:2602. 01893v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a geometric framework for analysing multi-head attention in large language models (LLMs).
By Timur Mudarisov, Mikhal Burtsev, Tatiana Petrova, Radu State
arXiv:2606. 18587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoder-only Transformers compute attention over the KV cache of preceding tokens.
By Zhiyuan Wang, Xuan Luo, Sirui Zeng, Xifeng Yan
arXiv:2608. 06411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse vision-language tasks, but their efficiency is limited by the cost of processing numerous visual tokens.
By Yuyao Sun, Tao Deng, Shuang Li, Deqing Wang, Hao Geng, Minjun Yu
arXiv:2605.15508v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The quadratic complexity of attention imposes severe memory and computational bottlenecks on Large Language Model (LLM) inference. This challenge i...
By Jiangnan Yu, Ceyu Xu, Yongji Wu, Yuan Xie
arXiv:2608.30315v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Token embeddings are the basic representational units that connect discrete tokens with continuous computation in language models. Although modern lang...
By Junjie Yao, Liangkai Hang, Zhi-Qin John Xu
arXiv:2608.06411v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse vision-language tasks, but their efficiency is limited by...
By Yuyao Sun, Tao Deng, Shuang Li, Deqing Wang, Hao Geng, Minjun Yu