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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models

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This paper cites Advances in neural information processing systems33, 1877–1901 (2020).

Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Advances in neural information processing systems33, 1877–1901 (2020)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2022)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Nature645(8081), 633–638 (2025)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Advances in neural information processing systems (2017)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Journal of Machine Learning Research23(120), 1–39 (2022)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pp

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This paper cites In: Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade, (2012).

Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade, (2012)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pp

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This paper cites Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31(2018).

Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31(2018)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Advances in neural information processing systems32(2019)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: Conference on Learning Theory, pp

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Journal of Machine Learning Research22(71), 1–47 (2021)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2022)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems37, 81157–81203 (2024)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (2024)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2025)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Layer Normalization

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: International Conference on Learning Representations (2024)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems38, 100092–100118 (2025)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models An overview of condensation phenomenon in deep learning

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (2024)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2021)

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models In: The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (2026)

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