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Sparse Gated Residual Writes
A Gated Residual variant in which each block reads only the two branches with the highest gate values.
Also called sparse writes.
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each block reads only the two branches with the highest gate values instead of all. Pre-training loss and benchmarks were almost unaffected, but the quality degraded clearly after post-training, so we did not adopt it.
not usedmodel architecturein Qwen3.8-NextQwen
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Other methods under model architecture :: normalization & residual.
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