8 papers
The Curse and Blessing of Mean Bias in FP4-Quantized LLM Training
Hengjie Cao, Zhendong Huang, Mengyi Chen +15
FP4 training promises substantial memory and compute savings for large language models, but remains fragile because blockwise quantization is dictated by extreme activation magnitu…
Bayesian inference of sparsity in stable vector autoregressive processes
Sarah E. Heaps, Ian H. Jermyn, Yujiang Wang +1
Advances in sensing technology have made it possible to collect large volumes of high-dimensional time-series data. In fields like genetics and neuroscience, key questions concern…
UniG2U-Bench: Do Unified Models Advance Multimodal Understanding?
Zimo Wen, Boxiu Li, Wanbo Zhang +11
Unified multimodal models have recently demonstrated strong generative capabilities, yet whether and when generation improves understanding remains unclear. Existing benchmarks lac…
Multi-Head Attention as a Source of Catastrophic Forgetting in MoE Transformers
Anrui Chen, Ruijun Huang, Xin Zhang +15
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures are often considered a natural fit for continual learning because sparse routing should localize updates and reduce interference, yet MoE Tra…
SD-MoE: Spectral Decomposition for Effective Expert Specialization
Ruijun Huang, Fang Dong, Xin Zhang +16
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale Large Language Models via expert specialization induced by conditional computation. In practice, however, expert specialization often f…
Dispelling the Curse of Singularities in Neural Network Optimizations
Hengjie Cao, Mengyi Chen, Yifeng Yang +11
This work investigates the optimization instability of deep neural networks from a less-explored yet insightful perspective: the emergence and amplification of singularities in the…