Summary of Cost-effective Attention Mechanisms For Low Resource Settings: Necessity & Sufficiency Of Linear Transformations, by Peyman Hosseini et al.
Cost-Effective Attention Mechanisms for Low Resource Settings: Necessity & Sufficiency of Linear Transformations
by Peyman Hosseini, Mehran Hosseini, Ignacio Castro, Matthew Purver
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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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 proposes three variants of Scaled Dot Product Attention (SDPA), a crucial component of modern deep learning applications, that reduce memory and computational requirements without sacrificing performance. The proposed models, which remove or add linear transformations, are evaluated on standard NLP and vision tasks. These lighter variants have 25-50% fewer parameters than the original SDPA and demonstrate negligible performance cost relative to size reduction. In one case, Super Attention, the variant outperforms SDPA by up to 10%, while improving speed and reducing parameters by 25%. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes deep learning models smaller without making them worse. It’s like a puzzle where they find new ways to do things that are faster and more efficient. They test these new ideas on lots of different tasks, like recognizing text or images. The results show that these new methods can be just as good as the old ones, but use much less memory and computer power. This is important for places with limited resources, where they need to do more with less. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Deep learning * Dot product * Nlp
