Library of Layers (LoL): Adaptively Ordering Transformer Layers at Runtime
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabThe paper introduces Library of Layers (LoL), a transformer architecture that dynamically orders its layers during inference from a global library of transformer blocks. A single hyperparameter, the library size, moves the model between parameter reuse and sparsity, unifying dense, depth-recurrent, and mixture-of-experts designs. The authors report competitive text pretraining performance against these baselines, distinct layer orderings on sudoku and maze tasks, language-dependent orderings in multilingual text, and router-output probes that separate safe from unsafe text with high AUROC.
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The paper introduces Library of Layers (LoL), a transformer architecture that dynamically orders its layers during inference from a global library of transformer blocks. A single hyperparameter, the library size, moves the model between parameter reuse and sparsity, unifying dense, depth-recurrent, and mixture-of-experts designs. The authors report competitive text pretraining performance against these baselines, distinct layer orderings on sudoku and maze tasks, language-dependent orderings in multilingual text, and router-output probes that separate safe from unsafe text with high AUROC.
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- LoL uses one hyperparameter, the size of its global transformer block library, to span dense, depth-recurrent, and mixture-of-experts style tradeoffs.
- On synthetic sudoku and maze data, the model used distinct layer orderings for different solution strategies, and routing could be intervened on.
- LoL chose different layer order patterns depending on language and script in a multilingual setting.
- Probes fit to router outputs distinguished safe from unsafe text with high AUROC after training on safety data.
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Dynamic layer ordering suggests models could compose their own computation per input, potentially improving efficiency and controllability. Router outputs may also offer an interpretability signal that can be probed for behaviors such as safety.
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