Wiola 13M, a Gated Spiral Attention Architecture for Parameter Efficient Small Language Models
Small language models in the ten to one hundred million parameter range are attractive for on device inference, rapid experimentation, and controlled scientific study, yet most of them reuse the standard transformer block without adaptation to the small scale regime. We present Wiola, a decoder only language model whose novelty is concentrated in three drop in components of every layer. First, Spiral Rotary Positional Encoding perturbs the standard rotary frequencies by a slowly growing per dimension factor so that phase trajectories fan outward, improving long range discrimination while adding no parameters. Second, Gated Spiral Attention introduces a per head, content adaptive scalar ga...
| Authors | Aryuemaan Kumar Chowdhury, Praveen Oosa, Vineesha Reddy |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 3 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 3 July 2026 |
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