7 papers
SPARKLING: Balancing Signal Preservation and Symmetry Breaking for Width-Progressive Learning
Qifan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Zhijian Zhuo +7
Progressive Learning (PL) reduces pre-training computational overhead by gradually increasing model scale. While prior work has extensively explored depth expansion, width expansio…
Virtual Width Networks
Seed, Baisheng Li, Banggu Wu +115
We introduce Virtual Width Networks (VWN), a framework that delivers the benefits of wider representations without incurring the quadratic cost of increasing the hidden size. VWN d…
INT v.s. FP: A Comprehensive Study of Fine-Grained Low-bit Quantization Formats
Mengzhao Chen, Meng Wu, Hui Jin +10
Modern AI hardware, such as Nvidia's Blackwell architecture, is increasingly embracing low-precision floating-point (FP) formats to handle the pervasive activation outliers in Larg…
Parallel Loop Transformer for Efficient Test-Time Computation Scaling
Bohong Wu, Mengzhao Chen, Xiang Luo +9
Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful but often too slow and costly for real-world use during inference. Looped transformers save on parameters by reusing the same weights for…
Model Merging in Pre-training of Large Language Models
Yunshui Li, Yiyuan Ma, Shen Yan +23
Model merging has emerged as a promising technique for enhancing large language models, though its application in large-scale pre-training remains relatively unexplored. In this pa…
Seed1.5-Thinking: Advancing Superb Reasoning Models with Reinforcement Learning
ByteDance Seed, :, Jiaze Chen +267
We introduce Seed1.5-Thinking, capable of reasoning through thinking before responding, resulting in improved performance on a wide range of benchmarks. Seed1.5-Thinking achieves 8…