Measuring Maximum Activations in Open Large Language Models research paper by Baidu, 2026

Baidu · Inference and efficiency · May 15, 2026 · 0 citations · 17 upvotes · unverified

Modern open LLMs exhibit wide variation in activation magnitudes across families and training stages, with maximum values spanning four orders of magnitude and showing complex scaling patterns that differ from simple size-based expectations.

By Luxuan Chen, Han Tian, Xinran Chen and 8 more · arXiv 2605.15572 · PDF · Code

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