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20192025
most citedThe Lazy Neuron Phenomenon: On Emergence of Activation Sparsity in Transformers

10 citations · 15 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.LG2025

EQuARX: Efficient Quantized AllReduce in XLA for Distributed Machine Learning Acceleration

Ibrahim Ahmed, Clemens Schaefer, Gil Tabak +5

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have become highly influential, their enormous scale presents significant deployment challenges. Efficiently serving these models typically requi…

cs.LG2025

Spark Transformer: Reactivating Sparsity in FFN and Attention

Chong You, Kan Wu, Zhipeng Jia +16

The discovery of the lazy neuron phenomenon in trained Transformers, where the vast majority of neurons in their feed-forward networks (FFN) are inactive for each token, has spurre…

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

The Lazy Neuron Phenomenon: On Emergence of Activation Sparsity in Transformers

Zonglin Li, Chong You, Srinadh Bhojanapalli +8

This paper studies the curious phenomenon for machine learning models with Transformer architectures that their activation maps are sparse. By activation map we refer to the interm…

cs.PF2022★ 5 cited

TPU-KNN: K Nearest Neighbor Search at Peak FLOP/s

Felix Chern, Blake Hechtman, Andy Davis +3

This paper presents a novel nearest neighbor search algorithm achieving TPU (Google Tensor Processing Unit) peak performance, outperforming state-of-the-art GPU algorithms with sim…

cs.LG2019

Accelerating Large-Scale Inference with Anisotropic Vector Quantization

Ruiqi Guo, Philip Sun, Erik Lindgren +4

Quantization based techniques are the current state-of-the-art for scaling maximum inner product search to massive databases. Traditional approaches to quantization aim to minimize…