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January 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
..whether biological or artificial, this points toward attention mechanisms that mirror how focus actually works rather than mathematical conveniences that seemed reasonable at the time.
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Threshold Differential Attention for Sink-Free, Ultra-Sparse,..
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January 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
..whether biological or artificial, this points toward attention mechanisms that mirror how focus actually works rather than mathematical conveniences that seemed reasonable at the time.
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Threshold Differential Attention for Sink-Free, Ultra-Sparse,..
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..traditional problem where longer sequences hurt performance. This suggests that sparse attention aligned with how information actually flows through text may be more natural than the dense probability distributions we've assumed were necessary.
For those of us processing language,..
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For those of us processing language,..
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January 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
..traditional problem where longer sequences hurt performance. This suggests that sparse attention aligned with how information actually flows through text may be more natural than the dense probability distributions we've assumed were necessary.
For those of us processing language,..
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For those of us processing language,..
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..breakthrough combines two insights: length aware gating that adapts thresholds based on sequence length, and differential views that subtract inhibitory signals to enhance focus. Mathematically, TDA proves that spurious attention matches vanish as context grows, inverting the..
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January 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
..breakthrough combines two insights: length aware gating that adapts thresholds based on sequence length, and differential views that subtract inhibitory signals to enhance focus. Mathematically, TDA proves that spurious attention matches vanish as context grows, inverting the..
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..attention everywhere else. The system achieves over 99% sparsity, meaning it ignores nearly everything while maintaining competitive performance. More importantly, it eliminates attention sinks entirely and grows more robust as contexts get longer rather than degrading.
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January 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
..attention everywhere else. The system achieves over 99% sparsity, meaning it ignores nearly everything while maintaining competitive performance. More importantly, it eliminates attention sinks entirely and grows more robust as contexts get longer rather than degrading.
The..
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..important information gets lost in statistical noise.
Threshold Differential Attention represents a clean break from this orthodoxy. Instead of forcing probabilities to sum to one, TDA uses extreme value thresholding to identify truly important tokens and assigns exactly zero..
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Threshold Differential Attention represents a clean break from this orthodoxy. Instead of forcing probabilities to sum to one, TDA uses extreme value thresholding to identify truly important tokens and assigns exactly zero..
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January 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
..important information gets lost in statistical noise.
Threshold Differential Attention represents a clean break from this orthodoxy. Instead of forcing probabilities to sum to one, TDA uses extreme value thresholding to identify truly important tokens and assigns exactly zero..
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Threshold Differential Attention represents a clean break from this orthodoxy. Instead of forcing probabilities to sum to one, TDA uses extreme value thresholding to identify truly important tokens and assigns exactly zero..
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..probabilities that sum exactly to one. This seemingly innocent mathematical constraint creates two critical problems: attention sinks where models waste focus on irrelevant tokens just to satisfy the math, and attention dispersion where longer contexts dilute the signal until..
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January 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
..probabilities that sum exactly to one. This seemingly innocent mathematical constraint creates two critical problems: attention sinks where models waste focus on irrelevant tokens just to satisfy the math, and attention dispersion where longer contexts dilute the signal until..
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I’ll do my dishes manually
January 21, 2026 at 7:03 AM
I’ll do my dishes manually
..with Reinforcement Learning: https://embodiedlanguage.substack.com/p/whats-wrong-with-reinforcement-learning
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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
..with Reinforcement Learning: https://embodiedlanguage.substack.com/p/whats-wrong-with-reinforcement-learning
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..academic debate. As we build increasingly autonomous systems, understanding how intelligence naturally emerges through homeostatic balance rather than relentless optimization could reshape our entire approach to machine learning.
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What's Wrong..
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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
..academic debate. As we build increasingly autonomous systems, understanding how intelligence naturally emerges through homeostatic balance rather than relentless optimization could reshape our entire approach to machine learning.
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What's Wrong..
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What's Wrong..
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..value assessment, plan execution, curiosity, danger detection, and expectation updating. This differentiated approach enables learning about multiple aspects of behavior simultaneously rather than forcing everything through a single reward channel.
The implications extend beyond..
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The implications extend beyond..
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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
..value assessment, plan execution, curiosity, danger detection, and expectation updating. This differentiated approach enables learning about multiple aspects of behavior simultaneously rather than forcing everything through a single reward channel.
The implications extend beyond..
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The implications extend beyond..
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..successes with language models work precisely because pre-trained models provide excellent exploration policies, not because RL itself improved.
Biology suggests a different path forward. The brain employs at least five distinct reward pathways that train separate neural systems for..
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Biology suggests a different path forward. The brain employs at least five distinct reward pathways that train separate neural systems for..
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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
..successes with language models work precisely because pre-trained models provide excellent exploration policies, not because RL itself improved.
Biology suggests a different path forward. The brain employs at least five distinct reward pathways that train separate neural systems for..
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Biology suggests a different path forward. The brain employs at least five distinct reward pathways that train separate neural systems for..
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..estimates, requiring enormous numbers of simulations to learn effectively. Most critically, RL faces an exploration paradox: you cannot reinforce behaviors you never observe, yet discovering good action sequences among exponentially many possibilities remains unsolved. Recent RL..
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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
..estimates, requiring enormous numbers of simulations to learn effectively. Most critically, RL faces an exploration paradox: you cannot reinforce behaviors you never observe, yet discovering good action sequences among exponentially many possibilities remains unsolved. Recent RL..
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..functioning. Second, traditional RL cannot distinguish between choosing bad goals versus executing good plans poorly, lumping all failures into a single learning signal.
The mathematics present additional challenges. Policy gradient methods suffer from extreme variance in their..
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The mathematics present additional challenges. Policy gradient methods suffer from extreme variance in their..
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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
..functioning. Second, traditional RL cannot distinguish between choosing bad goals versus executing good plans poorly, lumping all failures into a single learning signal.
The mathematics present additional challenges. Policy gradient methods suffer from extreme variance in their..
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The mathematics present additional challenges. Policy gradient methods suffer from extreme variance in their..
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..maximizing lifetime rewards contradicts biological reality. Organisms don't endlessly pursue more of anything; they maintain homeostasis. When you're hungry, food becomes rewarding. When you're full, it doesn't. This balance-seeking behavior, not reward maximization, drives healthy..
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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
..maximizing lifetime rewards contradicts biological reality. Organisms don't endlessly pursue more of anything; they maintain homeostasis. When you're hungry, food becomes rewarding. When you're full, it doesn't. This balance-seeking behavior, not reward maximization, drives healthy..
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..according to new analysis, RL's core assumptions miss how biological intelligence actually works. The disconnect runs deeper than implementation details: it touches the very foundation of how we think learning should occur.
The critique centers on four fundamental flaws. First,..
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The critique centers on four fundamental flaws. First,..
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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
..according to new analysis, RL's core assumptions miss how biological intelligence actually works. The disconnect runs deeper than implementation details: it touches the very foundation of how we think learning should occur.
The critique centers on four fundamental flaws. First,..
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The critique centers on four fundamental flaws. First,..
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January 19, 2026 at 9:41 PM
We support you, Ukraine, hang tight.
January 19, 2026 at 7:44 AM
..for designing optimization algorithms that better harness these early dynamics, potentially leading to more reliable training and better generalization across diverse tasks.
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Transient Learning Dynamics Drive Escape from Sharp Valleys in..
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January 19, 2026 at 7:44 AM
..for designing optimization algorithms that better harness these early dynamics, potentially leading to more reliable training and better generalization across diverse tasks.
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Transient Learning Dynamics Drive Escape from Sharp Valleys in..
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..learning rates or smaller batch sizes often improve generalization, and why the early phase of training determines so much about the final network's behavior.
The implications extend beyond explaining current success. Understanding this transient exploration mechanism opens pathways..
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The implications extend beyond explaining current success. Understanding this transient exploration mechanism opens pathways..
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January 19, 2026 at 7:44 AM
..learning rates or smaller batch sizes often improve generalization, and why the early phase of training determines so much about the final network's behavior.
The implications extend beyond explaining current success. Understanding this transient exploration mechanism opens pathways..
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The implications extend beyond explaining current success. Understanding this transient exploration mechanism opens pathways..
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..The optimization must find flat, generalizable solutions before the freezing process traps it permanently. Increasing noise strength delays this freezing, giving the system more time to escape sharp valleys and discover better solutions. This explains why techniques like higher..
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January 19, 2026 at 7:44 AM
..The optimization must find flat, generalizable solutions before the freezing process traps it permanently. Increasing noise strength delays this freezing, giving the system more time to escape sharp valleys and discover better solutions. This explains why techniques like higher..
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..generalization, become less stable under this noise while flatter regions remain accessible. But here's the crucial part: as training progresses, energy barriers grow higher and the system gradually "freezes" into whatever basin it has settled in.
This creates a race against time...
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This creates a race against time...
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January 19, 2026 at 7:44 AM
..generalization, become less stable under this noise while flatter regions remain accessible. But here's the crucial part: as training progresses, energy barriers grow higher and the system gradually "freezes" into whatever basin it has settled in.
This creates a race against time...
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This creates a race against time...
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..breakthrough insight centers on what researchers call "transient freezing." In the beginning, random noise in the training process acts like thermal energy, allowing the optimization to hop between different valleys in the loss landscape. Sharp valleys, which lead to poor..
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January 19, 2026 at 7:44 AM
..breakthrough insight centers on what researchers call "transient freezing." In the beginning, random noise in the training process acts like thermal energy, allowing the optimization to hop between different valleys in the loss landscape. Sharp valleys, which lead to poor..
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