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PublishedOctober 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Wiring Beats Blending: Structure-Aware Compensation for Transformer Downscaling
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arXiv:2608.02829v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Model families are trained size by size. Can a pretrained large model instead be converted into a smaller sibling? We characterize the 1.4B->410M conversion in Pythia end to end. Representations align strongly across sizes (ridge R^2=0.84); p
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