Summary of Polynomial Composition Activations: Unleashing the Dynamics Of Large Language Models, by Zhijian Zhuo and Ya Wang and Yutao Zeng and Xiaoqing Li and Xun Zhou and Jinwen Ma
Polynomial Composition Activations: Unleashing the Dynamics of Large Language Models
by Zhijian Zhuo, Ya Wang, Yutao Zeng, Xiaoqing Li, Xun Zhou, Jinwen Ma
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel activation function, polynomial composition activations (PolyCom), designed to optimize the dynamics of transformers. By providing a comprehensive mathematical analysis, the authors demonstrate that PolyCom enhances expressivity and efficacy relative to other activation functions. Theoretically, it is shown that PolyCom networks achieve the optimal approximation rate, requiring minimal parameters to approximate general smooth functions in Sobolev spaces. Empirically, the authors conduct experiments on pre-training configurations of large language models (LLMs) with dense and sparse architectures, substituting conventional activation functions with PolyCom. The results show substantial improvements over other activation functions, demonstrating the effectiveness of PolyCom. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes a new way to improve transformers by using a special type of math called polynomial composition activations (PolyCom). Transformers are powerful tools that can be used in many areas like language models. The authors show that PolyCom is better than other ways to activate transformers because it allows them to learn more complex patterns and relationships in the data. They tested their idea on large language models and found that it worked really well, improving accuracy and speed. |
