#layer-duplication

A high-scoring r/MachineLearning post resurfaced David Noel Ng's long-form write-up, centering on the claim that duplicating a seven-layer middle block in Qwen2-72B, without changing weights, was enough to reach the top of the open leaderboard.

A fast-rising LocalLLaMA post resurfaced David Noel Ng's write-up on duplicating a seven-layer block inside Qwen2-72B, a no-training architecture tweak that reportedly lifted multiple Open LLM Leaderboard benchmarks.