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DeepLoop: Depth Scaling for Looped Transformers

Shuzhen Li, Yifan Zhang, Jiacheng Guo +2

DeepLoop reuses a compact stack of transformer blocks across multiple passes to increase model depth without adding parameters, and introduces new residual scaling rules to keep tr…

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Unlocking Feature Learning in Gated Delta Networks at Scale

Yifeng Liu, Quanquan Gu

Training and scaling Large Language Models demand enormous computational resources, motivating both efficient sub-quadratic architectures and principled hyperparameter tuning metho…

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Self-Distilled Policy Gradient

Yifeng Liu, Shiyuan Zhang, Yifan Zhang +1

On-policy self-distillation, where a language model conditions on privileged context to supervise its own generations, is a promising source of dense supervision for sparse-reward…

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Deep Delta Learning

Yifan Zhang, Yifeng Liu, Mengdi Wang +1

Transformer residual streams evolve through additive updates. Although a sufficiently expressive residual block can represent content replacement, standard architectures do not par…

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Transformers Trained via Gradient Descent Can Provably Learn a Class of Teacher Models

Chenyang Zhang, Qingyue Zhao, Quanquan Gu +1

Transformers have achieved great success across a wide range of applications, yet the theoretical foundations underlying their success remain largely unexplored. To demystify the s…

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MARS-M: When Variance Reduction Meets Matrices

Yifeng Liu, Angela Yuan, Quanquan Gu

Matrix-based preconditioned optimizers, such as Muon, have recently been shown to be more efficient than scalar-based optimizers for training large-scale neural networks, including…