5 papers
Scaling Properties of Continuous Diffusion Spoken Language Models
Jason Ramapuram, Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane, Amitis Shidani +6
Speech-only spoken language models (SLMs) lag behind text and text-speech models in performance, with recent discrete autoregressive (AR) SLMs indicating significant computational…
The Design Space of Tri-Modal Masked Diffusion Models
Louis Bethune, Victor Turrisi, Bruno Kacper Mlodozeniec +21
Discrete diffusion models have emerged as strong alternatives to autoregressive language models, with recent work initializing and fine-tuning a base unimodal model for bimodal gen…
A Small-Scale System for Autoregressive Program Synthesis Enabling Controlled Experimentation
Russ Webb, Jason Ramapuram
What research can be pursued with small models trained to complete true programs? Typically, researchers study program synthesis via large language models (LLMs) which introduce is…
Distillation Scaling Laws
Dan Busbridge, Amitis Shidani, Floris Weers +3
We propose a distillation scaling law that estimates distilled model performance based on a compute budget and its allocation between the student and teacher. Our findings mitigate…
Theory, Analysis, and Best Practices for Sigmoid Self-Attention
Jason Ramapuram, Federico Danieli, Eeshan Dhekane +8
Attention is a key part of the transformer architecture. It is a sequence-to-sequence mapping that transforms each sequence element into a weighted sum of values. The weights are t…