The paper investigates how nonlinearity in attention mechanisms affects scaling laws in large language models. It finds that nonlinear attention leads to an inverse-depth decay of loss across various data spectra, enabling models to learn both strong and weak spectral directions simultaneously. This behavior contrasts with linear-attention models, which rely on a power-law data spectrum and learn directions sequentially.
By Zirui Peng, Yizhou Liu, Ziming Liu, Jeff Gore
arXiv:2606. 07473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whisper, a widely adopted ASR model, is known to suffer from hallucinations - coherent transcriptions generated for non-speech audio entirely disconnected from the input.
By Georgii Aparin, Vadim Popov, Tasnima Sadekova, Assel Yermekova
arXiv:2607. 09753v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, with performance closely related to the denoising backbones that parameterize the score function.
By Haksoo Lim, Myeongjin Lee, Wonjoon Chang, Jaesik Choi
arXiv:2610.16745v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Attention sinks are usually studied after they have formed. We ask whether a measurable hidden-state change appears beforehand and whether changing t...
By Fan Yang, Yue Song
arXiv:2608. 09417v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep decoder-only Transformers often replace the original Post-Norm architecture with Pre-Norm variants because Post-Norm training is highly sensitive to warmup and learning rate under conventional initialization schemes.
By Xingjian Wang, Qingyu Han, Xiaodong Luo, Yin Zhang
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