Summary of Fast Gradient Computation For Rope Attention in Almost Linear Time, by Yifang Chen et al.
Fast Gradient Computation for RoPE Attention in Almost Linear Time
by Yifang Chen, Jiayan Huo, Xiaoyu Li, Yingyu Liang, Zhenmei Shi, Zhao Song
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Complexity (cs.CC); 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 Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) mechanism has been a significant enhancement to the Transformer architecture, enabling models to capture token relationships when encoding positional information. However, this mechanism makes attention computations more complex, making efficient algorithms challenging. Recent research introduced almost linear time algorithms for forward computation under specific parameter settings, but achieving subquadratic time algorithms for other regimes remains elusive unless the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) is disproven. This work develops the first almost linear time algorithm for backward computations in RoPE-based attention with bounded entries, building on recent advancements and utilizing a novel combination of the polynomial method and Fast Fourier Transform. Furthermore, lower bounds derived from SETH demonstrate that the bounded entry condition is necessary for subquadratic performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper talks about how to make computers learn better by improving how they understand words in different positions. Right now, it’s hard to do this efficiently because the way we’re doing it makes things complicated. Scientists have already found a way to do it almost as fast as possible under certain conditions, but there are still big challenges to overcome if we want to make it even faster. This paper shows how to solve one part of that problem by coming up with a new way to do calculations quickly and accurately. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Embedding » Token » Transformer
