Summary of Optimizing Attention with Mirror Descent: Generalized Max-margin Token Selection, by Addison Kristanto Julistiono et al.
Optimizing Attention with Mirror Descent: Generalized Max-Margin Token Selection
by Addison Kristanto Julistiono, Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh, Navid Azizan
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 investigates the optimization dynamics of mirror descent (MD) algorithms for softmax attention mechanisms in natural language processing and computer vision tasks. The authors tailor a family of MD algorithms to optimize the p-th power of the _p-norm, showing that they converge in direction to a generalized hard-margin SVM with an _p-norm objective when applied to classification problems using softmax attention models. The paper also delves into the joint optimization dynamics of the key-query matrix and the decoder, establishing conditions for convergence. Numerical experiments on real data demonstrate improved generalization over standard gradient descent (GD) and optimal token selection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at how machine learning models can learn to focus on important parts of information. It studies a special kind of algorithm called mirror descent, which is used in attention mechanisms. The researchers find that these algorithms work well for certain types of problems and even beat other popular methods like gradient descent. They also show that the way these algorithms optimize the key-query matrix and decoder is important for getting good results. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Classification » Decoder » Generalization » Gradient descent » Machine learning » Natural language processing » Optimization » Softmax » Token
