Massive Activations in Hybrid Linear Attention LLMs: Spikes and Plateaus
startlux-models · hf · 2026-08-14
This research investigates the phenomenon of massive activations in hybrid linear-attention Large Language Models.
The study reveals that these activations exhibit pre-attention spikes and inter-spike plateaus governed by cancellation timing. Furthermore, the morphology recovers when approaching the full-attention limit.
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