TinyCeNN-LM proposes quality‑gated conversion of attention in pretrained language models
The arXiv paper introduces TinyCeNN-LM, a post‑training conversion framework that swaps the attention mechanism in existing language models with CeNN‑inspired cellular‑recurrent layers. The approach adds bounded local processing, compact recurrent memory, routing, fusion, and an accept‑or‑rollback validation step that only keeps a converted layer when both representation fidelity and…
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- TinyCeNN-LM replaces attention with CeNN‑inspired cellular‑recurrent layers and a quality‑gated accept‑or‑rollback validation.
- Integrated Memory keeps perplexity within –0.07% to +0.93% and cuts total cache up to 6.01%.
The Integrated Memory variant keeps perplexity changes between –0.07 % and +0.93 % and shrinks total cache usage by up to 6.01 %. A downstream sanity check on 200 sampled items reports overall accuracy between 28.5 % and 32.0 % for the converted Qwen releases. The authors argue that a conservative, quality‑gated conversion is preferable to wholesale attention replacement or speed‑up attempts.
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