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palmerschallon

2 karma · joined February 10, 2026

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palmerschallon··on Surgical Repair of Collapsed Attention Heads in ALiBi Transformers
Found that ALiBi positional encoding causes 31-44% of attention heads in BLOOM-family models to collapse — attending almost entirely to token 0 rather than meaningful context. The paper identifies the pathology and a targeted repair. Happy to answer questions.