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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…
cs.CL2025
Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free
Zihan Qiu, Zekun Wang, Bo Zheng +10
Gating mechanisms have been widely utilized, from early models like LSTMs and Highway Networks to recent state space models, linear attention, and also softmax attention. Yet, exis…
cs.CL2025
PaTH Attention: Position Encoding via Accumulating Householder Transformations
Songlin Yang, Yikang Shen, Kaiyue Wen +5
The attention mechanism is a core primitive in modern large language models (LLMs) and AI more broadly. Since attention by itself is permutation-invariant, position encoding is ess…