FlashMorph formulates hybrid layer selection as budget-constrained optimization, trains per-layer gates on synthetic retrieval data with linearization regularization, then discretizes and distills to produce efficient hybrid architectures.
Lolcats: On low- rank linearizing of large language models
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A two-stage distillation recipe converts a Pythia-1B Transformer into a Mamba model that preserves performance with perplexity 14.11 versus the teacher's 13.86.
Kimi Linear hybridizes linear attention with a new KDA module to beat full attention on tasks while slashing KV cache by 75% and speeding decoding up to 6x.
MoBA routes attention over blocks via MoE-style gating to enable dynamic, bias-light long-context attention that matches full attention performance at lower cost.
LightTransfer identifies lazy layers in LLMs like LLaMA and replaces their attention with streaming attention to form hybrid models, delivering up to 2.17x throughput with under 1.5% drop on LongBench and strong results on reasoning benchmarks.
RLVR exhibits implicit reward overfitting to training data and optimizes heavy-tailed singular spectra with rank-1 focus on reasoning capability.
SpikingMamba distills Mamba into an SNN LLM achieving 4.76x energy savings with a 4.78% zero-shot accuracy gap that narrows to 2.23% after RL.
This work systematically compares inter-layer and intra-layer hybridization strategies for combining self-attention and Mamba-style state space models, evaluating them on language modeling, downstream tasks, long-context performance, scaling, and efficiency to derive optimal design recipes.
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Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture
Kimi Linear hybridizes linear attention with a new KDA module to beat full attention on tasks while slashing KV cache by 75% and speeding decoding up to 6x.
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On the Implicit Reward Overfitting and the Low-rank Dynamics in RLVR
RLVR exhibits implicit reward overfitting to training data and optimizes heavy-tailed singular spectra with rank-1 focus on reasoning capability.