Summary of Can Mamba Always Enjoy the “free Lunch”?, by Ruifeng Ren et al.

Can Mamba Always Enjoy the “Free Lunch”?

by Ruifeng Ren, Zhicong Li, Yong Liu

First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Oct 2024

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Medium	GrooveSquid.com (original content)	Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: This paper investigates the theoretical expressive ability of Mamba, a type of Large Language Model (LLM) that has gained attention for its constant-level size during inference and comparable performance to Transformers in sequence modeling while offering significant savings. The authors analyze Mamba’s potential shortcomings when performing COPY operations and find that it may encounter bottlenecks when handling long sequences. However, they also show that Mamba can achieve perfect performance when the size scales linearly with sequence length. Additionally, the authors explore Mamba’s ability to tackle Dependency Parsing (DP) problems using Chain of Thought (CoT), finding that while Mamba has comparable costs to standard Transformers for arbitrary DP problems, it can provide savings in overhead for problems with favorable properties such as locality.
Low	GrooveSquid.com (original content)	Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: This paper looks at a new kind of language model called Mamba. It’s been shown to be good at understanding and generating text, but people are worried about how well it will do on longer texts because it gets bigger when the text gets longer. The researchers in this paper want to know if Mamba can really handle long texts as well as it handles shorter ones. They found that while Mamba is great for short texts, it can get stuck on longer texts. However, they also showed that if you make Mamba grow at the same rate as the text gets longer, it can actually do just as well as other language models.