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The Recurrent Transformer: Greater Effective Depth and Efficient Decoding
Costin-Andrei Oncescu, Depen Morwani, Samy Jelassi +3
Transformers process tokens in parallel but are temporally shallow: at position , each layer attends to key-value pairs computed based on the previous layer, yielding a depth ca…
Matching Features, Not Tokens: Energy-Based Fine-Tuning of Language Models
Samy Jelassi, Mujin Kwun, Rosie Zhao +5
Cross-entropy (CE) training provides dense and scalable supervision for language models, but it optimizes next-token prediction under teacher forcing rather than sequence-level beh…
LOTION: Smoothing the Optimization Landscape for Quantized Training
Mujin Kwun, Depen Morwani, Chloe Huangyuan Su +3
Optimizing neural networks for quantized objectives is fundamentally challenging because the quantizer is piece-wise constant, yielding zero gradients everywhere except at quantiza…
Characterization and Mitigation of Training Instabilities in Microscaling Formats
Huangyuan Su, Mujin Kwun, Stephanie Gil +2
Training large language models is an expensive, compute-bound process that must be repeated as models scale, algorithms improve, and new data is collected. To address this, next-ge…