The paper introduces Gated Recurrent Transformers, a depth‑sharing architecture that brackets a single shared core with fixed prelude and coda blocks and uses a lightweight projection and element‑wise update gate to modulate recurrent updates. This design allows functional specialization across recurrences while reducing memory footprint. Experiments show that, under equal FLOPs or parameter budgets, the recurrent model matches or surpasses deeper GPT‑2 Small baselines, achieving similar or better accuracy with fewer parameters and lower peak decoding memory.
By Amr Hegazy, Amr Alanwar, Mostafa Elhoushi
arXiv:2608. 15062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling transformer language models creates an inherent tension between expressivity and memory efficiency.
By Amr Hegazy, Amr Alanwar, Mostafa Elhoushi
arXiv:2608. 13426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based language models achieve strong performance but incur substantial inference cost due to repeated high-dimensional matrix multiplications.
By Zixuan Lan, Yanhong Li, Jiawei Zhou
arXiv:2608.15062v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Scaling transformer language models creates an inherent tension between expressivity and memory efficiency. While unique weights across layer...
By Amr Hegazy, Amr Alanwar, Mostafa Elhoushi
arXiv:2606. 05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked language modelling (MLM) has been the dominant pre-training objective for text encoders since BERT, yet it encourages representations that are strongly anchored to surface-form token identity rather than deeper semantic structure.
By Aimen Boukhari
arXiv:2502.09245v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In contrast to RNNs, which compress their history into a single hidden state, Transformers can attend to all past tokens directly. However, standar...
By Gleb Gerasimov, Yaroslav Aksenov, Nikita Balagansky, Viacheslav Sinii, Daniil Gavrilov