HyLo upcycles Transformer LLMs into hybrids with MLA and Mamba2/Gated DeltaNet blocks via staged training and distillation, extending context to 2M tokens and outperforming prior upcycled hybrids on long-context benchmarks.
Zebra-llama: Towards extremely efficient hybrid models
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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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Long-Context Aware Upcycling: A New Frontier for Hybrid LLM Scaling
HyLo upcycles Transformer LLMs into hybrids with MLA and Mamba2/Gated DeltaNet blocks via staged training and distillation, extending context to 2M tokens and outperforming prior upcycled hybrids on long-context benchmarks.
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Hybrid Architectures for Language Models: Systematic Analysis and Design Insights
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.