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Nicolas Zucchet

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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Divergence controls entropy in distillation

Distillation has become a core primitive of large language model training, but its properties are not yet well understood. We take an entropic perspective, studying how the entropy of the student depends on the data and the divergence that define the distillation objective. We prove that forward KL inflates the entropy...

Nicolas Zucchet, Scott W. Linderman · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Switching Linear Attention

Designing expressive sequence layers with efficient inference remains a central challenge in modern machine learning. Standard softmax attention achieves excellent sequence modeling performance through rich nonlinear token interactions, but it requires a key-value cache that grows linearly with sequence length, limitin...

Hyun Dong Lee, X. Gonzalez, Nicolas Zucchet et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Language models suffer from a curse of ambiguity

This work identifies a curse of ambiguity: in large language models, and more broadly in all neural networks that produce discrete probability distributions, the more ambiguous a next-token distribution is, the harder it is to learn accurately.

Nicolas Zucchet, Hyun Dong Lee, Scott W. Linderman · 2 citations

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