New Trend in Open-Source Models: Researchers Removing Global Attention Layers
yacineMTB · x · 2026-08-04
Yacine reposted a meme and discussion about open-source model architecture trends. The original tweet jokes that open-source model researchers are removing as many global attention layers as possible from their models. Elie Bakouch then commented implying that the two biggest open-source models in the world already use linear attention.
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