transformer-architectures

This paper presents a cascaded multi-granularity pruning framework for deploying LLMs on Industrial IoT edge devices, achieving up to 13.8x compression with minimal accuracy loss on MHA+GELU architectures while exposing a collapse on GQA+SwiGLU designs.

This paper analyzes residual scaling in looped (weight-tied) transformers, showing that weight sharing requires stronger scaling (1/N) than standard residual networks, and derives a factored parameterization that enables hyperparameter transfer across loop counts without retuning.