arXiv AI

On the Smallness of the Large Language Models Scaling Exponents

arXiv:2606. 24504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We discuss reasons why the scaling exponents of current Large Language Models (LLMs) applications are indicating an unsustainable regime in terms of energy resources.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

Deriving Neural Scaling Laws from the statistics of natural language

arXiv:2602. 07488v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the fact that experimental neural scaling laws have substantially guided empirical progress in large-scale machine learning, no existing theory can quantitatively predict the exponents of these important laws for any modern LLM trained on any natural language dataset.

By Francesco Cagnetta, Allan Ravent\'os, Surya Ganguli, Matthieu Wyart
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Critical attention scaling in long-context transformers

arXiv:2510. 05554v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models scale to longer contexts, attention layers suffer from a fundamental pathology: attention scores collapse toward uniformity as context length $n$ increases, causing tokens to cluster excessively, a phenomenon known as rank-collapse.

By Shi Chen, Zhengjiang Lin, Yury Polyanskiy, Philippe Rigollet
arXiv AI
Jun 24

Can Scale Save Us From Plasticity Loss in Large Language Models?

arXiv:2606. 24752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The loss of plasticity - the ability of a network to learn new information after having already learned older information - is a fundamental challenge in creating artificial neural networks capable of continual learning.

By J. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia, Tom\'as Figliolia, Beren Millidge