mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections Stabilize Wider Residual Streams
DeepSeek-AI · Zhenda Xie et al. (20 authors) · v2, 5 Jan 2026 · builds on ByteDance Hyper-Connections (Zhu et al., 2024)
arXiv 2512.24880
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References
- mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections — Xie et al., 2025 (arXiv 2512.24880)
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- DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report — DeepSeek-AI, 2024