3 papers
cs.CL2026
Erase-then-Delta Attention: Decoupling Erase and Write Addresses in Delta-Rule Linear Attention
Xiao Li, Chengruidong Zhang, Hao Luo +15
Delta-rule linear attention improves recurrent memory updates by correcting what is already stored at the current write address before writing new content. However, the active corr…
cs.DC2026
Canzona: A Unified, Asynchronous, and Load-Balanced Framework for Distributed Matrix-based Optimizers
Liangyu Wang, Siqi Zhang, Junjie Wang +7
The scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) drives interest in matrix-based optimizers (e.g., Shampoo, Muon, SOAP) for their convergence efficiency; yet their requirement for holis…
cs.CL2026
A Unified View of Attention and Residual Sinks: Outlier-Driven Rescaling is Essential for Transformer Training
Zihan Qiu, Zeyu Huang, Kaiyue Wen +16
We investigate the functional role of emergent outliers in large language models, specifically attention sinks (a few tokens that consistently receive large attention logits) and r…