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LoRA's Scaling Factor (Alpha): Still Misunderstood?
This week, we review:
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Rethinking the Role of Efficient Attention in Hybrid Architectures
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Variable-Width Transformers
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The Hidden Power of Scaling Factor in LoRA Optimization
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Flow-Based Token Credit for Reasoning RL
This week, we review:
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⭐How Does Reasoning Flow? Tracing Attention-Induced Information Flow for Targeted RL in LLMs
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Dynamic Linear Attention
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Compress-Distill: Reasoning Trace Compression for Efficient Knowledge Distillation...
Collaborative Parallel Thinking for Efficient Test-Time Scaling
This week, we review:
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⭐Share More, Search Less: Collaborative Parallel Thinking for Efficient Test-Time Scaling
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Less is More: Early Stopping Rollout for On-Policy Distillation
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Negligible in Size, Significant in Effect: On Sca...
Agents Fail to Reject Stale Memories
This week, we review:
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⭐Learning to Foresee: Unveiling the Unlocking Efficiency of On-Policy Distillation
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Steered LLM Activations are Non-Surjective
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STALE: Can LLM Agents Know When Their Memories Are No Longer Valid?
The S...
DeepSeek-V4: The Interesting Part Is the Attention Architecture
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DeepSeek-V4 is a million-token-context model family.
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