Summary of Samformer: Unlocking the Potential Of Transformers in Time Series Forecasting with Sharpness-aware Minimization and Channel-wise Attention, by Romain Ilbert et al.
SAMformer: Unlocking the Potential of Transformers in Time Series Forecasting with Sharpness-Aware Minimization and Channel-Wise Attention
by Romain Ilbert, Ambroise Odonnat, Vasilii Feofanov, Aladin Virmaux, Giuseppe Paolo, Themis Palpanas, Ievgen Redko
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A transformer-based architecture has achieved impressive results in natural language processing and computer vision, but it still falls short of simpler linear models in multivariate long-term forecasting. Researchers investigated why this is the case by studying a simple linear forecasting problem, finding that transformers struggle to converge to their true solution despite their high expressive power. The attention mechanism within transformers was identified as the culprit for their low generalization capacity. To overcome this limitation, the authors proposed a shallow lightweight transformer model optimized with sharpness-aware optimization, which successfully escapes bad local minima. Empirical results showed that this approach outperformed current state-of-the-art methods and rivaled the performance of larger foundation models while using significantly fewer parameters. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In simple terms, researchers found that powerful computer models called transformers are not as good at predicting future events as simpler models when working with multiple variables over time. They looked into why this is and discovered that a key part of these transformers, attention, is the problem. To fix this, they created a new transformer model that works better and outperforms other top-performing models while using fewer resources. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Generalization * Natural language processing * Optimization * Transformer
