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Radar: attention factorization and gradient flow
A September 30, 2026 publication argues that factoring S = WWᵀ changes gradient flow in attention and removes an information-exponent bottleneck that can stall unfactorized models.
On September 30, 2026, a publication about attention argued that factoring the matrix as S = WWᵀ changes gradient flow and removes an information-exponent bottleneck that can stall unfactorized models. The claim concerns how parameterization affects optimization, not merely model dimension or size.
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Original source: Compartilhamento de pesos e fluxo de gradientes em attention