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OlmPool shows four architecture choices weaken long context

@dair_ai said Ai2, Carnegie Mellon, and University of Washington studied normalization, GQA, pretraining context length, and sliding-window attention, finding that combining more than three of them significantly reduces long-context performance, and released OlmPool.

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2026-08-13

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@dair_ai said Ai2, Carnegie Mellon, and University of Washington studied normalization, GQA, pretraining context length, and sliding-window attention, finding that combining more than three of them significantly reduces long-context performance, and released OlmPool.

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