arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Practical Scaling Laws: Converting Compute into Performance in a Data-Constrained World

The paper introduces a new closed‑form scaling law that extends Chinchilla’s original formula to handle data‑constrained regimes. It decomposes loss into undercapacity, undertraining, and overfitting components, saturating between an irreducible loss and an uninformed baseline. The authors validate the model on diverse architectures and domains, achieving state‑of‑the‑art RMSE across multiple LLM scaling‑law grids and enabling cost‑aware training allocations.

By Christopher M. Bryant, Hao Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Hierarchical Grading in Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 22757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Graded Large Language Models (GLLMs), an algebraic framework that equips the representation space of a transformer with a grading and propagates the induced weighted scalar action through embeddings, self-attention, and the training objective.

By T. Shaska
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Feature Priming in Online Linear Regression: Sparse-Regret Lower Bounds and Tight Coordinatewise Rates

The paper investigates online linear regression with sparse comparators, focusing on feature priming techniques that reweight features using past data. It establishes sparse‑regret lower bounds that invalidate sparse‑logarithmic guarantees for univariate, Pearson, and multivariate priming rules under a past‑only Moore–Penrose protocol, showing ≥Ω(min{T,√d}) clipped regret for unit‑power rules and linear regret for powered rules in high dimensions. The authors also provide tight rank upper bounds for certain priming schemes and present algebraic constructions yielding Ω(min{T,d^{1/4}}) regret for unit‑power multivariate priming, while noting that the exact multivariate frontier remains open.

By Huibo Xu, Shi Fu, Qixin Zhang, Dacheng Tao