Summary of Chain and Causal Attention For Efficient Entity Tracking, by Erwan Fagnou et al.
Chain and Causal Attention for Efficient Entity Tracking
by Erwan Fagnou, Paul Caillon, Blaise Delattre, Alexandre Allauzen
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Oct 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 paper explores the limitations of transformers in handling entity-tracking tasks in large language models. It identifies a theoretical constraint that requires at least log2(n+1) layers to handle n state changes. To address this issue, the authors propose an efficient enhancement to the standard attention mechanism, allowing it to manage long-term dependencies more efficiently. By considering attention as an adjacency matrix, their model can track entity states with a single layer. The empirical results show significant improvements in entity-tracking datasets while maintaining competitive performance on natural language modeling tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Transformers are powerful tools for processing large amounts of data, but they have limitations when it comes to tracking entities over time. This paper looks at how transformers work and finds that there’s a theoretical limit to how well they can track entities. The authors propose a new way to make the transformer more efficient and effective, allowing it to track entities better without needing as many layers. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Tracking » Transformer
