Summary of Lococo: Dropping in Convolutions For Long Context Compression, by Ruisi Cai et al.
LoCoCo: Dropping In Convolutions for Long Context Compression
by Ruisi Cai, Yuandong Tian, Zhangyang Wang, Beidi Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 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 paper presents a novel approach called LoCoCo (Dropping In Convolutions for Long Context Compression) that addresses the memory hurdle of processing long context sequences in Large Language Models. LoCoCo employs a fixed-size Key-Value cache and uses an adaptive fusion technique to blend previous KV pairs with incoming tokens, minimizing the loss of contextual information. This approach allows for straightforward “drop-in” integration with existing LLM frameworks without needing architectural modifications. The paper demonstrates that LoCoCo maintains outstanding performance across various context lengths during both inference and fine-tuning phases, achieving a high context compression rate. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps solve a big problem in language models: how to process long pieces of text without using too much memory. It creates a new way called LoCoCo that uses a special kind of cache to store important information about the text. This lets the model quickly look up and use this information instead of having to read through all the text again. The approach is easy to add to existing language models and doesn’t require any big changes. The results show that it works well for long pieces of text, even ones thousands of words long. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Inference
