arXiv:2606. 29139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how the next-token prediction of an autoregressive Transformer language model changes under small perturbations of earlier input token embeddings.
By Matthias Br\"andel, Stephan K\"ohler, Oliver Rheinbach
The paper analyzes training dynamics of multiclass logistic regression on high‑dimensional Gaussian mixture models with many classes. It finds that learning proceeds sequentially from the most to the least frequent classes and, when class priors follow a power‑law, the cross‑entropy risk evolves through an initial plateau, a power‑law decay phase, and a final convergence phase. The study also shows how model capacity and optimization trade‑off under a fixed compute budget, leading to a compute‑optimal scaling law that prescribes model size and training time as functions of compute.
By Konstantinos Christopher Tsiolis, Denny Wu, Christos Thrampoulidis, Murat A. Erdogdu
arXiv:2606. 29158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-rate transfer can reduce the cost of training large language models: instead of sweeping learning rates at target scale, practitioners extrapolate from smaller runs.
By Zaiwen Yang, Huaqing Zhang, Jing Xu, Jingzhao Zhang
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:2602. 03685v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training large language models (LLMs) is computationally expensive, partly because the loss exhibits slow power-law convergence whose origin remains debatable.
By Yizhou Liu, Ziming Liu, Cengiz Pehlevan, Jeff Gore
arXiv:2504.16450v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We derive a differential equation that governs the evolution of the generalization gap when a model is trained by gradient descent-based methods. T...
By Rubing Yang, Pratik Chaudhari