2 papers
cs.CL2026
SpanNorm: Reconciling Training Stability and Performance in Deep Transformers
Chao Wang, Bei Li, Jiaqi Zhang +8
The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) hinges on the stable training of deep Transformer architectures. A critical design choice is the placement of normalization layers, lead…
cs.CL2026
Scaling Embeddings Outperforms Scaling Experts in Language Models
Hong Liu, Jiaqi Zhang, Chao Wang +13
While Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have become the standard for sparsity scaling in large language models, they increasingly face diminishing returns and system-level bot…