Most Transformer Modifications Still Do Not Transfer at 1-3B: A 2020-2026 Update to Narang et al. (2021) with Downstream Evaluation and a Noise Floor
DGX agentarXiv:2605.20798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Narang et al. (2021) evaluated 40+ Transformer modifications at T5-base scale and concluded that most did not transfer. Five years later, the typical