arXiv Machine Learning

Composing Linear Layers from Irreducibles

arXiv:2507. 11688v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contemporary large models often exhibit behaviors suggesting the presence of low-level primitives that compose into modules with richer functionality, but these fundamental building blocks remain poorly understood.

arXiv AI
1d ago

LORA-CRAFT: Cross-layer Rank Adaptation via Frozen Tucker Decomposition of Pre-trained Attention Weights

arXiv:2602. 17510v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce LoRA-CRAFT (\textbf{C}ross-layer \textbf{R}ank \textbf{A}daptation via \textbf{F}rozen \textbf{T}ucker), abbreviated CRAFT throughout, an extremely parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method that applies Tucker tensor decomposition to pre-trained attention weight matrices stacked across transformer layers and trains only small square adaptation matrices on the resulting frozen Tucker factors.

By Kasun Dewage, Marianna Pensky, Suranadi De Silva, Shankadeep Mondal
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

An expressivity analysis of hierarchical modelling in deep transformers via bounded-depth grammars

arXiv:2606. 17522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are widely believed to derive their expressive power from their ability to form \textbf{hierarchical representations}, capturing progressively more abstract and compositional features across layers.

By Vinoth Nandakumar, Qiang Qu, Pramod Thebe, Sakshi Khachariya, Tongliang Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

Stabilizing Native Low-Rank LLM Pretraining

arXiv:2602. 12429v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models have achieved remarkable success, yet their growing parameter counts pose significant computational and memory challenges.

By Paul Janson, Edouard Oyallon, Eugene Belilovsky