GatedResidual outperforms HyperConnections in new ablations

nrehiew_ · x · 2026-08-27

The post discusses a new residual connection variant called GatedResidual, which applies RMSNorm to branches, projects via a low-rank bottleneck, and writes using a single branch-level scalar. Comparisons show that QSA performs better on language modeling and remains similar on RULER. Efficiency is improved without negatively impacting MTP acceptance rates.

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