Foundation models, now powering most of the exciting applications in deep learning, are almost universally based on the Transformer architecture and its core attention module. Many subquadratic-time architectures such as linear attention, gated convolution and recurrent models, and structured state space models (SSMs) have been developed to address Transformers' computational inefficiency on long sequences, but they have not performed as well as attention on important modalities such as langu...| papers.cool
In this work, we propose Retentive Network (RetNet) as a foundation architecture for large language models, simultaneously achieving training parallelism, low-cost inference, and good performance. We theoretically derive the connection between recurrence and attention. Then we propose the retention mechanism for sequence modeling, which supports three computation paradigms, i.e., parallel, recurrent, and chunkwise recurrent. Specifically, the parallel representation allows for training parall...| papers.cool
Transformers have revolutionized almost all natural language processing (NLP) tasks but suffer from memory and computational complexity that scales quadratically with sequence length. In contrast, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) exhibit linear scaling in memory and computational requirements but struggle to match the same performance as Transformers due to limitations in parallelization and scalability. We propose a novel model architecture, Receptance Weighted Key Value (RWKV), that combine...| papers.cool
A central goal of sequence modeling is designing a single principled model that can address sequence data across a range of modalities and tasks, particularly on long-range dependencies. Although conventional models including RNNs, CNNs, and Transformers have specialized variants for capturing long dependencies, they still struggle to scale to very long sequences of $10000$ or more steps. A promising recent approach proposed modeling sequences by simulating the fundamental state space model (...| papers.cool
A central problem in learning from sequential data is representing cumulative history in an incremental fashion as more data is processed. We introduce a general framework (HiPPO) for the online compression of continuous signals and discrete time series by projection onto polynomial bases. Given a measure that specifies the importance of each time step in the past, HiPPO produces an optimal solution to a natural online function approximation problem. As special cases, our framework yields a s...| papers.cool
当前，像ChatGPT之类的LLM可谓是“风靡全球”。有读者留意到，几乎所有LLM都还是用最初的Multi-Head Scaled-Dot Attention，近年来大量的Efficient工作...| kexue.fm
List of computer science publications by Albert Gu| dblp.org
事实上，除了写博客内容，在这几年里，笔者是花了相当一部分时间来做科学空间的“表面功夫”，为此还专门学了一点php、css和js。虽然不敢说精益求精，但总体来说网站的浏览体验应该比前几年要好得多。...| kexue.fm
前几天，笔者看了几篇介绍SSM（State Space Model）的文章，才发现原来自己从未认真了解过SSM，于是打算认真去学习一下SSM的相关内容，顺便开了这个新坑，记录一下学习所得。SSM...| kexue.fm