Study links attention nonlinearity to power-law massive activations and scaling laws
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-02
Researchers argue that two pillars of LLM success — attention and neural scaling laws — are deeply connected: the nonlinearity Transformers need to focus on specific tokens gives rise to power-law "massive activation" patterns and power-law loss curves, offering a mechanistic account of why scaling laws emerge.
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