arXiv:2607. 05017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The performance of deep learning models crucially depends on the settings of hyperparameters like learning rate, initialization scale, and weight decay.
By Gage DeZoort, Boris Hanin
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:2601. 00417v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformer residual streams evolve through additive updates.
By Yifan Zhang, Yifeng Liu, Mengdi Wang, Quanquan Gu
arXiv:2602. 10545v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern large-scale neural networks are often trained and released in multiple sizes to accommodate diverse inference budgets.
By Yuxin Ma, Nan Chen, Mateo D\'iaz, Soufiane Hayou, Dmitriy Kunisky, Soledad Villar
arXiv:2602. 07494v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deeper modern architectures are costly to train, making hyperparameter transfer preferable to expensive repeated tuning.
By Shenxi Wu, Haosong Zhang, Xingjian Ma, Shirui Bian, Yichi Zhang, Xi Chen, Wei Lin
arXiv:2603. 07523v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transferring knowledge by fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained networks has become a standard paradigm for downstream tasks, yet the knowledge of a pre-trained model is tightly coupled with monolithic architecture, which restricts flexible reuse across models of varying scales.
By Jianlu Shen, Fu Feng, Yucheng Xie, Jiaqi Lv, Xin Geng
The quadratic cost of causal self-attention severely bottlenecks long-context transformer inference. While numerous post hoc linearization pipelines exist, it is difficult to identify which components preserve model quality.
arXiv:2606. 31717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is commonly viewed as an update-space approximation to full fine-tuning, yet this view is incomplete for self-gated Transformer feed-forward networks.
By Shuai Yuan, Sudong Cai, Bingzhi Chen, Shuyuan Zheng, Chuan Xiao, Makoto Onizuka, Rui Mao
arXiv:2606. 00888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) offers a promising paradigm for improving the training and inference efficiency of deep neural networks; however, we find that in large language model training, DST can suffer from optimization instability, manifested as loss spikes after topology updates.
By Qiao Xiao, Boqian Wu, Patrik Okanovic, Tomasz Sternal, Maurice van Keulen, Elena Mocanu, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Torsten Hoefler
arXiv:2602. 19799v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite recent algorithmic advances, we still lack principled ways to leverage the well-documented rescaling symmetries in ReLU neural network parameters.
By Arthur Lebeurrier, Titouan Vayer, R\'emi Gribonval
arXiv:2607. 11052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning progress is often attributed to scaling model size and dataset volume, yet the composition of data can be just as consequential.
By Kimia Hamidieh, Lester Mackey, David Alvarez-Melis
arXiv:2607. 07386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear attention models allow a fixed state size and a fixed amount of compute per token.
By Lo\"ic Cabannes, Pierre-Emmanuel Mazar\'e, Gergely Szilvasy, Matthijs Douze, Maria Lomeli, Ilze Amanda Auzina, Justin Carpentier, Gabriel Synnaeve, Herv\'e J\'egou