Summary of Lambda-skip Connections: the Architectural Component That Prevents Rank Collapse, by Federico Arangath Joseph et al.
Lambda-Skip Connections: the architectural component that prevents Rank Collapse
by Federico Arangath Joseph, Jerome Sieber, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Carmen Amo Alonso
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Oct 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 The paper explores the phenomenon of rank collapse in sequence models, which can lead to reduced expressivity and training instabilities. It focuses on the impact of architectural components like skip connections, LayerNorm, and MLPs on mitigating rank collapse. The authors propose a unifying framework that captures both transformers and State Space Models (SSMs), and study how lambda-skip connections provide guarantees for rank collapse prevention. They also present sufficient conditions to guarantee prevention of rank collapse across various architectures, and validate their findings with experiments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at a problem called rank collapse in sequence models like language translators. It makes computers learn fast, but then they stop learning new things. The researchers want to know how some special parts of these models, like shortcuts or gates, help prevent this from happening. They create a way to understand and predict when the model is safe from this problem. This helps both people who make these models and those who use them. |
