Olivier Francon

Cognizant AI Lab, UT Austin & Cognizant AI Lab

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Architecture Design (Transformers, SSMs, MoE) (1)Scaling Laws & Emergent Abilities (1)Training Efficiency & Optimization (1)

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May 27, 2026

Cognizant AI Lab3w ago·also UT Austin

Efficient Pre-Training of LLMs through Truncated SVD Layers

LLMs can now be pre-trained with significantly less compute thanks to a new method that adaptively maintains low-rank and orthonormal weight matrices.

Kaivan Kamali, Hormoz Shahrzad, Olivier Francon +2

Architecture Design (Transformers, SSMs, MoE)Scaling Laws & Emergent Abilities Training Efficiency & Optimization

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