Variable-Width Transformers

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2026 Aug 4 15:13
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2026 Aug 4 15:15
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Introduces a variable-width architecture for decoder-only transformers, keeping the early and late layers wide while making the middle layers narrower.
Variable-Width Transformers do not change width during inference; the width simply differs by layer. Residual connections use parameter-free carry-forward residual resizing, which copies inactive coordinates so dimensional changes work smoothly without learnable projection layers.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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