Temporarily reducing the learning rate on upper-layer query and key projections during early GPT pretraining prevents premature attention specialization and improves model performance.
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Learning Less Is More: Premature Upper-Layer Attention Specialization Hurts Language Model Pretraining
Temporarily reducing the learning rate on upper-layer query and key projections during early GPT pretraining prevents premature attention specialization and improves model performance.