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PublishedMay 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Dense vs Sparse Pretraining at Tiny Scale: Active-Parameter vs Total-Parameter Matching
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arXiv:2605.13769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) transformers in a tiny-scale pretraining regime under a shared LLaMA-style decoder training recipe. The sparse model replaces dense feed-forward blocks with Mixtral-style routed experts. Dense baselines are
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