Benchmarks

Benchmarks

Controlled evaluations of residual connection and normalization designs. A benchmark belongs here if it holds compute or parameters fixed and asks whether added depth turns into useful computation.

arXiv:2609.32534

DepthBench

Measuring How Residual Connections Enable More Computational Depth.
Keyu Wang*, Yangyi Huang*, Jiale Kang, David González-Martínez, Weiyang Liu, Shiwei Liu
*Equal contribution

DepthBench at a glance
Same parameters, different shape. Trading width for depth at ≈400M parameters, Pre-LN gets worse as the model becomes deeper and narrower, while HC and Full AttnRes keep improving, even at an extreme aspect ratio of 9.1 (dmodel = 640, nlayer = 70).
Interactive · validation loss at ≈400M
Validation loss
Downstream NLL

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