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Research Presentation

mHC: Manifold-Constrained
Hyper-Connections

DeepSeek-AI | Zhenda Xie, Yixuan Wei, Huanqi Cao, et al.

Stability

Restoring identity mapping property to ensure training stability at scale.

Efficiency

Infrastructure optimization including kernel fusion and DualPipe overlapping.

Scalability

Empirical validation of superior scaling performance in foundation models.

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Background

From Residual to Hyper-Connections

Standard Residual (ResNet)

x_l+1 = x_l + F(x_l)

Identity mapping ensures stable gradient flow.
Restricted to 1:1 connectivity between adjacent layers.
Fixed residual stream width.

Hyper-Connections (HC)

x_l = H_l(x_l-1) + f_l(H'_l(x_l-1))

Expanded residual stream width (multi-channel).
Diversified connectivity patterns (All-to-All).
Significant performance gains in small-scale models.

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The Critical Flaws of HC

While conceptually powerful, unconstrained Hyper-Connections introduce fundamental obstacles for large-scale training.

Numerical Instability

Loss of identity mapping leads to exponential variance growth, causing gradient vanishing or value overflow (NaN).

System Overhead

Increased memory access (HBM) for multi-channel stream management and additional transformation matrices.

Restricted Scalability

Performance gains diminish as model size increases due to the difficulty in balancing complex topological paths.

CRITICAL FAILURE: NaN DETECTED

Training Loss Variance

+420%

Training Steps (Scaling Up)

Instability

"Unconstrained matrices destroy the identity path,
making deep networks untrainable."

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Core Framework

Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC)

y = P_M(H) ⋅ x + F(P_M'(H') ⋅ x)

We project the residual connection space of HC onto a specific manifold M to restore the identity mapping property.

• P_M: The projection operator onto manifold M.
• H / H': Unconstrained parameter matrices.
• F: The non-linear transformation layer.

Identity Restoration

Ensures that at initialization, the shortcut acts as a pure identity path.

Topology Flexibility

Maintains the multi-channel width and connectivity diversity of HC.

Controlled Variance

Mathematically bounds the signal variance across arbitrary depths.

Manifold Constraint M

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Mechanism

Manifold Projection & Parameterization

Parameterization

Decompose connection matrices into learnable weights W and a fixed structural prior S.

Manifold Constraint

Apply Softmax or Normalization constraints to ensure the row-sums or spectral norms are bounded.

Identity Restoration

Initialize parameters such that the effective transformation T = I (Identity Matrix) at t=0.

Unconstrained HC Space

↓ Projection P_M ↓

Constrained mHC Space

∑ Row = 1 | λ_max ≤ 1

Mathematical constraints prevent signal explosion while allowing the network to learn optimal routing.

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System Optimization

Efficient Infrastructure Design

Kernel Fusion

Fusing RMSNorm, Projection, and Addition into a single CUDA kernel.

Reduces HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) access overhead by 40% during the forward and backward passes.

[Norm] + [Proj] + [Add] → [Fused_mHC]

Memory IO: -40%

Selective Recompute

Strategically recomputing multi-channel streams instead of storing them in activation memory.

Enables training with larger batch sizes or longer sequences without OOM.

Mem Savings: ~30%

DualPipe Overlap

Optimizing P2P communication in pipeline parallelism by overlapping mHC computation with weight gradients.

Minimizes pipeline bubbles in large-scale cluster training.

Bubble Ratio: < 5%

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Performance Analysis

Main Experimental Results

LLM Benchmark Performance

Model Architecture	Params	MMLU	GSM8K
Baseline (Residual)	7B	48.2	35.4
Hyper-Connections (HC)	7B	49.5	37.2
mHC (Ours)	7B	51.8	41.5

Training Throughput (tokens/s)

Baseline 100%

Original HC 65%

mHC + Infrastructure Opt. 96%

+12.4% improvement on reasoning tasks
Compared to standard Residual baseline at same compute budget.

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Deep Dive

Scaling Law & Training Stability

Scalability

Compute (FLOPs)

Validation Loss

Residual Baseline

mHC Architecture

• Predictable Scaling: mHC follows a steeper scaling curve than standard ResNet.

• Parameter Efficiency: Achieves same loss with ~30% fewer parameters at large scale.

Stability Analysis

Training Steps

Gradient Norm

mHC (Stable)

Vanilla HC (Exploding)

• Gradient Flow: mHC maintains a near-constant gradient norm across 1000+ layers.

• No Warm-up dependency: Training is robust even with aggressive learning rates.

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Conclusion & Future Outlook

Mathematical Rigor

mHC successfully bridges the gap between topological diversity and numerical stability via manifold constraints.

Practical Efficiency

Infrastructure optimizations ensure that mHC remains as efficient as standard residual connections in production.

Scalable Foundation

Proved effective for training at scale, offering a new blueprint for next-generation foundation model architectures.

Next Step: Automatic Topology Search

Exploration: mHC in Vision & Multimodal

Goal: Infinite-Depth Stability

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mHC: Manifold-ConstrainedHyper-Connections

Stability

Efficiency

Scalability

Standard Residual (ResNet)

Hyper-Connections (HC)

The Critical Flaws of HC

Numerical Instability

System Overhead

Restricted Scalability

Identity Restoration

Topology Flexibility

Controlled Variance

Parameterization

Manifold Constraint

Identity Restoration

Kernel Fusion

Selective Recompute

DualPipe Overlap

LLM Benchmark Performance

Training Throughput (tokens/s)

Scalability

Stability Analysis

Conclusion & Future Outlook

Mathematical Rigor

Practical Efficiency

Scalable Foundation

mHC: Manifold-Constrained
Hyper-Connections

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