Revisiting Residual-free Transformers
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-07-14
This post shares a new blog post titled Revisiting Residual-free Transformers!. The author presents a counterfactual experiment demonstrating that a strong optimizer like Muon might actually be capable of training Transformers without a residual stream.
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