arXiv:2606. 06160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RoPE-trained transformers distinguish absolute position in their attention patterns, even though RoPE encodes only relative offsets in the inner product.
By Valeria Ruscio, Umberto Nanni, Fabrizio Silvestri
arXiv:2603. 06274v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The quadratic computational complexity of self-attention remains a fundamental bottleneck for scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) to long contexts, particularly during the pre-filling phase.
By Lin Niu, Xin Luo, Linchuan Xie, Yifu Sun, Guanghua Yu, Jianchen Zhu, S Kevin Zhou
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.
By Henry Ndubuaku, Karen Mosoyan, Jakub Mroz, Noah Cylich, Satyajit Kumar, Parkirat Sandhu, Roman Shemet, Justin H Lee
arXiv:2601. 12145v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Softmax attention struggles with long contexts due to structural limitations: the strict sum-to-one constraint forces attention sinks on irrelevant tokens, and probability mass disperses as sequence lengths increase.
By Xingyue Huang, Xueying Ding, Mingxuan Ju, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah, Tong Zhao
arXiv:2601. 03043v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across a wide range of complex tasks and are increasingly deployed at scale, placing significant demands on inference efficiency.
By Junhao Hu, Fangze Li, Mingtao Xu, Feifan Meng, Shiju Zhao, Tiancheng Hu, Ting Peng, Anmin Liu, Wenrui Huang, Chenxu Liu, Ziyue Hua, Tao Xie
arXiv:2606. 08105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When attention concentrates on a single token, a sink, what is the model actually computing?
By Lukas Fesser, Mozes Jacobs, Thomas Fel, Andy Keller, Sham Kakade