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cs.LG2026

Hyperparameter Scaling Laws Across MoE Sparsity

Changxin Tian, Kunlong Chen, Jia Liu +3

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models expand model capacity without a proportional increase in training compute, but increasing sparsity makes reliable hyperparameter transfer challengin…

cs.LG2026

Effective Learning Rate Governs Loss Dynamics in Language Model Pretraining

Zihan Liu, Ruiheng Zheng, Shaobo Zhang +4

We uncover ELR collapse in language model pretraining: learning rate (LR) and parameter norm govern loss dynamics primarily through their ratio, the effective learning rate (ELR).…

cs.AI2026

Rethinking Shrinkage Bias in LLM FP4 Pretraining: Geometric Origin, Systemic Impact, and UFP4 Recipe

Qian Zhao, Kunlong Chen, Changxin Tian +9

FP4 training promises substantial reductions in memory and computation cost for LLM pretraining, yet current FP4 hardware paths and recipes, including NVIDIA Blackwell/Rubin-class…

cs.CL2026

Ling and Ring 2.6 Technical Report: Efficient and Instant Agentic Intelligence at Trillion-Parameter Scale

Ang Li, Ben Liu, Bin Han +215

Efficient and scalable agentic intelligence requires models that can deliver both low-latency responses and strong reasoning capabilities while remaining practical to train, serve,…

cs.CL2026

SuperValid: Capability-Aligned OOD Validation for Generalizable Downstream Scaling

Quanen Sun, Changxin Tian, Ke Shi +6

Scaling laws guide large language model training by relating compute to cross-entropy loss, and recent work further extends them to predict downstream benchmark performance. Howeve…

cs.LG2026

Optimal Expert-Attention Allocation in Mixture-of-Experts: A Scalable Law for Dynamic Model Design

Junzhuo Li, Peijie Jiang, Changxin Tian +3

This paper presents a novel extension of neural scaling laws to Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, focusing on the optimal allocation of compute between expert and attention sub-laye…

cs.LG2026

MergeMix: Optimizing Mid-Training Data Mixtures via Learnable Model Merging

Jiapeng Wang, Changxin Tian, Kunlong Chen +5

Optimizing data mixtures is essential for unlocking the full potential of large language models (LLMs), yet identifying the optimal composition remains computationally prohibitive…

cs.CL2025

Every Activation Boosted: Scaling General Reasoner to 1 Trillion Open Language Foundation

Ling Team, Ang Li, Ben Liu +138

We introduce Ling 2.0, a series reasoning-oriented language foundation built upon the principle that every activation boosts reasoning capability. Designed to scale from tens of bi…

cs.CL2025

MaP: A Unified Framework for Reliable Evaluation of Pre-training Dynamics

Jiapeng Wang, Changxin Tian, Kunlong Chen +5

Reliable evaluation is fundamental to the progress of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the evaluation process during pre-training is plagued by significant instability that obscur…

cs.CL2025

Arrows of Math Reasoning Data Synthesis for Large Language Models: Diversity, Complexity and Correctness

Sirui Chen, Changxin Tian, Binbin Hu +4

Enhancing the mathematical reasoning of large language models (LLMs) demands high-quality training data, yet conventional methods face critical challenges in scalability, cost, and…

cs.CL2025

WSM: Decay-Free Learning Rate Schedule via Checkpoint Merging for LLM Pre-training

Changxin Tian, Jiapeng Wang, Qian Zhao +7

Recent advances in learning rate (LR) scheduling have demonstrated the effectiveness of decay-free approaches that eliminate the traditional decay phase while maintaining competiti…

cs.CL2025

Towards Greater Leverage: Scaling Laws for Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

Changxin Tian, Kunlong Chen, Jia Liu +3

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has become a dominant architecture for scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently by decoupling total parameters from computational cost. However, th…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Every FLOP Counts: Scaling a 300B Mixture-of-Experts LING LLM without Premium GPUs

Ling Team, Binwei Zeng, Chao Huang +71

In this technical report, we tackle the challenges of training large-scale Mixture of Experts (MoE) models, focusing on overcoming cost inefficiency and resource limitations preval…

cs.LG2025

BOSE: A Systematic Evaluation Method Optimized for Base Models

Hongzhi Luan, Changxin Tian, Zhaoxin Huan +4

This paper poses two critical issues in evaluating base models (without post-training): (1) Unstable evaluation during training: in the early stages of pre-training, the models lac…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Can Small Language Models be Good Reasoners for Sequential Recommendation?

Yuling Wang, Changxin Tian, Binbin Hu +6

Large language models (LLMs) open up new horizons for sequential recommendations, owing to their remarkable language comprehension and generation capabilities. However, there are s…