arXiv AI By Henry Ndubuaku, Karen Mosoyan, Jakub Mroz, Noah Cylich, Satyajit Kumar, Parkirat Sandhu, Roman Shemet, Justin H Lee

A Controlled Study of Attention-Only Transformers

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arXiv:2607. 18363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feed-forward networks hold two thirds of a transformer's non-embedding parameters, yet the architecture has not received a necessity test that controls parameters, compute, and depth at once.

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Attention-Aware Routing: Coupling Routing and Attention in MoEs

Attention-Aware Routing (AAR) augments the router in Mixture-of-Experts language models with temporal and spectral features derived from a sliding window of attention weights, thereby separating contextual information from the token’s hidden state. By keeping the base transformer frozen and training only routing parameters, AAR achieves a +3.37‑point improvement on GSM8K over a routing‑only baseline and demonstrates that routing changes propagate through the residual stream to reshape attention without directly updating the attention mechanism. The method also reduces long diverging generations, shows depth‑sensitivity affecting retrieval versus reasoning, and offers a controlled probe of routing‑relevant information across layers.

By Despoina Kosmopoulou, Anastasios Tsetsilas, Efthymios Georgiou, Giannis Karamanolakis, Swastik Roy, Alexandros Potamianos