arXiv:2606. 25008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural scaling laws describe how pre-training loss decays as power laws with training time, model size, and compute.
By Yizhou Liu, Jeff Gore
arXiv:2602. 03685v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training large language models (LLMs) is computationally expensive, partly because the loss exhibits slow power-law convergence whose origin remains debatable.
By Yizhou Liu, Ziming Liu, Cengiz Pehlevan, Jeff Gore
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:2406. 05335v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generation of text and speech in natural languages can be modeled as a stochastic process.
By Kai Nakaishi, Yoshihiko Nishikawa, Koji Hukushima
arXiv:2606. 06238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a statistical-field framework for text generated by large language models (LLMs), treating token embeddings as continuous spin variables on a one-dimensional chain.
By Huajian Ruan, Jinyang Li, Xingyu Guo, Lingxiao Wang
arXiv:2606. 29158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-rate transfer can reduce the cost of training large language models: instead of sweeping learning rates at target scale, practitioners extrapolate from smaller runs.
By Zaiwen Yang, Huaqing Zhang, Jing Xu, Jingzhao Zhang
arXiv:2606. 29139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how the next-token prediction of an autoregressive Transformer language model changes under small perturbations of earlier input token embeddings.
By Matthias Br\"andel, Stephan K\"ohler, Oliver Rheinbach
arXiv:2605. 11125v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Discrete Diffusion Language Models progressed rapidly as an alternative to autoregressive (AR) models, motivated by their parallel generation abilities.
By Justin Deschenaux, Caglar Gulcehre
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: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