A Reproducibility Study of Partial Residual Ablations in Pre-LN Transformers

arXiv:2608.14689 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-06

Updated: 2026-09-25

Code: https://github.com/pratik376/Why-Partial-Residuals-fails

Project page: http://skylion007.github.io/OpenWebTextCorpus

Terminology

• Transformer — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Tokenization — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gradient Flow — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Simplifying Transformer Blocks

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