3 papers
cs.LG2025
Step-3 is Large yet Affordable: Model-system Co-design for Cost-effective Decoding
StepFun, :, Bin Wang +195
Large language models (LLMs) face low hardware efficiency during decoding, especially for long-context reasoning tasks. This paper introduces Step-3, a 321B-parameter VLM with hard…
cs.LG2025
Predictable Scale: Part I, Step Law -- Optimal Hyperparameter Scaling Law in Large Language Model Pretraining
Houyi Li, Wenzhen Zheng, Qiufeng Wang +10
The impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) across diverse tasks are now well established, yet their effective deployment necessitates careful hyperparameter optimi…
cs.LG2024
Energy-Based Preference Model Offers Better Offline Alignment than the Bradley-Terry Preference Model
Yuzhong Hong, Hanshan Zhang, Junwei Bao +2
Since the debut of DPO, it has been shown that aligning a target LLM with human preferences via the KL-constrained RLHF loss is mathematically equivalent to a special kind of rewar…