Summary of Neurocache: Efficient Vector Retrieval For Long-range Language Modeling, by Ali Safaya et al.
Neurocache: Efficient Vector Retrieval for Long-range Language Modeling
by Ali Safaya, Deniz Yuret
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Neurocache, a method to extend the effective context size of large language models (LLMs) by storing their past states in an external vector cache. The approach uses an efficient k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) algorithm for retrieving relevant past states and incorporating them into attention processing. Key improvements include compressed state storage, single retrieval operation per token, and extended retrieval window to neighboring states. This enhances both language modeling and downstream task accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of Neurocache for models trained from scratch and pre-trained models like Llama2-7B and Mistral-7B when enhanced with the cache mechanism. Compared to text retrieval methods, Neurocache shows improvements in single-document question-answering and few-shot learning tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Neurocache is a new way to help big language models remember things better by storing their past states in a special kind of memory called a vector cache. This helps the model do better at understanding natural language and doing tasks like answering questions and learning from small amounts of data. The approach uses an efficient algorithm to find the right past states and use them to help with attention processing. It also improves how quickly the model can process information. The results show that Neurocache makes a big difference for models trained from scratch and pre-trained models like Llama2-7B and Mistral-7B. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Few shot » Nearest neighbor » Question answering » Token
