Supernodes and Halos: Loss-Critical Hubs in LLM Feed-Forward Layers

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Autori principali:	Cherilyn, Audrey, Safaai, Houman
Natura:	Preprint
Pubblicazione:	2026
Soggetti:	Machine Learning Computation and Language
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