4 papers
Feed-Forward Steering in Transformer Residual Dynamics
Timur Mudarisov, Mikhail Burtsev, Radu State
Attention-only dynamical theories model Transformer residual directions as particles aggregating on a sphere. We extend this framework by incorporating the feed-forward network (FF…
Geometry-Guided Layerwise FFN Width Allocation in Transformers
Timur Mudarisov, Mikhail Burtsev, Radu State
Feed-forward networks (FFNs) account for a large fraction of Transformer parameters, yet their hidden width is usually constant across depth. We ask whether this capacity can inste…
Geometric Analysis of Token Selection in Multi-Head Attention
Timur Mudarisov, Mikhal Burtsev, Tatiana Petrova +1
We present a geometric framework for analysing multi-head attention in large language models (LLMs). Without altering the mechanism, we view standard attention through a top-N sele…
Limitations of Normalization in Attention Mechanism
Timur Mudarisov, Mikhail Burtsev, Tatiana Petrova +1
This paper investigates the limitations of the normalization in attention mechanisms. We begin with a theoretical framework that enables the identification of the model's selective…