Platform research notes

Latest update | Jul 14, 2026

Research notes and system design briefs.

Published by the WeChat AI team.

We push the frontier of intelligence under extreme resource efficiency.

Published Mar 2, 2026

Hidden Decoding: Scaling Sequence Length in Pretraining

In a previous blog post, we introduced the architecture design and practical experience of pretraining using WeLM-V4-80B-A3B as an example. This post presents a different path to improving model capability — without increasing the parameters of the Transformer backbone, we replicate the Vocab Embedding $n$ times to expand the sequence length by a factor of $n$, granting each token $n$ times the effective computation in a single forward pass.

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Published Jan 21, 2026

Building Effective Sparse MoE Models with Moderate Resources

In this post, we share our findings on building effective pre-trained LLMs with moderate resources. We show that an 80B-A3B MoE model trained on fewer than 14 trillion tokens delivers competitive performance against similarly sized and larger systems, while a depth‑upscaled 130B variant, continued for a modest amount of training at a small learning rate, delivers a clear performance lift over the 80B baseline.

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