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Widened Residual Stream
A residual-stream design that widens the stream into multiple branches; the evidence here specifies four branches.
Also called widening the residual stream.
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Evidence
1 span quoted from the sources, strongest treatment first.
The residual stream is widened to four branches
coreunclearin Qwen3.8-Flash-NextQwen
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Other methods under model architecture :: normalization & residual.
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