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The Redundancy Cliff: Discovering and Exploiting 50% Dispensable Compute in Transformers with a Single O(1) Spectral Gate

Authors: Lynch, Brendan;

The Redundancy Cliff: Discovering and Exploiting 50% Dispensable Compute in Transformers with a Single O(1) Spectral Gate

Abstract

This repository accompanies the paper "The Redundancy Cliff: Discovering and Exploiting 50% Dispensable Compute in Transformers with a Single O(1) Spectral Gate" (Dec 2025). We introduce a simple, fast $O(1)$ spectral gate $\kappa_x$ derived from a modular-residue fingerprint of the input, then apply $\kappa_x$ to dynamically prune attention KV cache length and slice MLP intermediate dimensions. Experiments on TinyLlama-1.1B (WikiText-2) show substantial compute reduction with negligible change in perplexity in our proof-of-concept (PoC) runs. This release contains the final, tested code (scripts, patching logic, $\kappa_x$ computation, and required dependencies) used to run the experiments, along with the original run artifacts for maximum transparency. This is a proof-of-concept and is not intended for production deployment. See README.md for instructions, environment notes, and full reproducibility details.

Keywords

redundancy-cliff, spectral-gate, lambda2, transformers, kv-cache-pruning, dynamic-sparsity, mlp-slicing

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