Huaijin Wu

xHC: Expanded Hyper-Connections

Xiangdong Zhang, Xiaohan Qin, Sunan Zou, Tuo Dai, Xiaoming Shi, Huaijin Wu, et al.

Hyper-Connections (HC) expand the residual stream of Transformers into $N$ parallel streams, providing a form of memory scaling beyond model width and depth. Manifold-Constrained HC (mHC) stabilizes this formulation at scale. The large gains from $N{=}1$ to $N{=}4$ suggest residu…Read more