Summary of Landscape-aware Growing: the Power Of a Little Lag, by Stefani Karp et al.
Landscape-Aware Growing: The Power of a Little LAG
by Stefani Karp, Nikunj Saunshi, Sobhan Miryoosefi, Sashank J. Reddi, Sanjiv Kumar
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 This research paper investigates efficient pretraining paradigms for Transformer-based models. The study aims to determine the best growing strategy from a pool of options, departing from previous approaches that focused on loss-preserving behavior at initialization or final performance. Instead, the authors introduce “landscape-aware growing (LAG)”, an alternative perspective based on early training dynamics. They analyze the correlation between initial and final performances, finding that predicting optimal growth is possible with only a small delay after initialization. This discovery motivates an adaptive strategy for gradual stacking. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us understand how to train big models more efficiently using smaller models as starting points. The researchers looked at different ways of growing these models and found that the way they grow in the beginning affects how well they perform in the end. They developed a new approach called “landscape-aware growing” that lets them predict which growth strategy will work best, even after just a few steps of training. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Pretraining » Transformer
