Summary of Learning Mamba As a Continual Learner: Meta-learning Selective State Space Models For Efficient Continual Learning, by Chongyang Zhao and Dong Gong
Learning Mamba as a Continual Learner: Meta-learning Selective State Space Models for Efficient Continual Learning
by Chongyang Zhao, Dong Gong
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A machine learning framework called meta-continual learning (MCL) is explored in this paper. The goal of MCL is to learn a sequence prediction model that can efficiently handle non-stationary data streams without storing or recomputing all seen samples. The authors focus on attention-free models with fixed-size hidden states, such as Linear Transformers, which align with the essential goals of continual learning (CL) and efficiency needs. They propose MambaCL, a meta-learned continual learner that leverages the connection between Mamba and Transformers to guide its behavior over sequences. To enhance training, selectivity regularization is introduced. The authors conduct extensive experiments across various MCL scenarios, highlighting the promising performance and strong generalization of attention-free models like Mamba in MCL. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper explores a new way for machines to learn from data streams without storing everything they’ve seen before. It’s called meta-continual learning (MCL). The authors want to see if a special type of model, called an attention-free model, can be good at this task. They try out different models and find that one in particular, called Mamba, does very well. They also develop a new way to train the model, called selectivity regularization, which helps it make better choices. The authors test their ideas with many different kinds of data and show that Mamba is really good at learning from these streams. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Continual learning » Generalization » Machine learning » Regularization
