Summary of Extended Mind Transformers, by Phoebe Klett and Thomas Ahle
Extended Mind Transformers
by Phoebe Klett, Thomas Ahle
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Memorizing Transformers method, inspired by Wu et al.’s (2022) work, addresses the limitations of pre-trained language models in memorizing information at inference time. By providing a bank of pre-computed memories, the model can efficiently retrieve relevant information for long input sequences. The approach updates positional encodings for keys and values retrieved from memory using the model’s own key/query system, eliminating the need for fine-tuning. Experimental results demonstrate the importance of retrieving external information in most decoder layers, outperforming state-of-the-art models by 6% on average. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper uses a special type of artificial intelligence called language models to remember information and answer questions. The problem is that these models can get stuck when trying to remember things that are too long or complicated. To solve this, the researchers came up with a new way for the model to look at its own memories and find the important parts. This helps the model learn and understand more about what it’s reading. They also created a special test to see how well their method works. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Decoder » Fine tuning » Inference
