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RiLM: Parameter-Efficient Language Modeling via Geodesic Decoding
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- RiLM replaces the output layer in tiny language models by treating token prediction as geodesic distance on a Riemannian manifold, cutting parameters by roughly one third.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers deploying models under one million parameters on edge devices or building domain-specific models with strict resource constraints.
- Watch out
- Results are limited to controlled small-model comparisons with vocabularies up to ten thousand tokens, not full-scale production scenarios or modern vocabulary sizes.
- language model
- embedding
- token
- edge
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