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Depth Memory
David González-Martínez, Philipp Nazari, T. Konstantin Rusch +1
Residual connections propagate information through a network by additively accumulating layer outputs. Recently proposed alternatives, such as Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connection…
ISO: An RLVR-Native Optimization Stack
Hanqing Zhu, Wenyan Cong, Zhizhou Sha +8
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) advances the reasoning capabilities of language models, yet the optimization layer that converts reward feedback into weight-s…
AlphaQ: Calibration-Free Bit Allocation for Mixture-of-Experts Quantization
Wanqi Yang, Yuexiao Ma, Alexander Conzelmann +4
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale model capacity through sparse expert activation, but their deployment remains memory-bound because all expert weights must reside in me…
One LR Doesn't Fit All: Heavy-Tail Guided Layerwise Learning Rates for LLMs
Di He, Songjun Tu, Keyu Wang +2
Learning rate configuration is a fundamental aspect of modern deep learning. The prevailing practice of applying a uniform learning rate across all layers overlooks the structural…
Motion-Aware Caching for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation
Jing Xu, Yuexiao Ma, Xuzhe Zheng +7
Autoregressive video generation paradigms offer theoretical promise for long video synthesis, yet their practical deployment is hindered by the computational burden of sequential i…
Layer Collapse in Diffusion Language Models
Alexander Conzelmann, Albert Catalan-Tatjer, Shiwei Liu
Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as competitive alternatives to autoregressive (AR) language models, yet differences in their activation dynamics remain poorl…
ELAS: Efficient Pre-Training of Low-Rank Large Language Models via 2:4 Activation Sparsity
Jiaxi Li, Lu Yin, Li Shen +5
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities, but their immense computational demands during training remain a critical bottleneck for widespread adoption. Lo…
When Does Sparsity Mitigate the Curse of Depth in LLMs
Dilxat Muhtar, Xinyuan Song, Sebastian Pokutta +4
Recent work has demonstrated the curse of depth in large language models (LLMs), where later layers contribute less to learning and representation than earlier layers. Such under-u…
Why Diffusion Language Models Struggle with Truly Parallel (Non-Autoregressive) Decoding?
Pengxiang Li, Dilxat Muhtar, Tianlong Chen +2
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are often advertised as enabling parallel token generation, yet practical fast DLMs frequently converge to left-to-right, autoregressive (AR)-like…
Search or Accelerate: Confidence-Switched Position Beam Search for Diffusion Language Models
Mingyu Cao, Alvaro H. C. Correia, Christos Louizos +2
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising a masked sequence, repeatedly deciding which positions to commit at each step. Standard decoding follows a g…
ActTail: Global Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models
Wenwen Hou, Xinyuan Song, Shiwei Liu +1
Activation sparsity is a promising approach for accelerating large language model (LLM) inference by reducing computation and memory movement. However, existing activation sparsity…