Summary of Equivariant Neural Functional Networks For Transformers, by Viet-hoang Tran et al.
Equivariant Neural Functional Networks for Transformers
by Viet-Hoang Tran, Thieu N. Vo, An Nguyen The, Tho Tran Huu, Minh-Khoi Nguyen-Nhat, Thanh Tran, Duy-Tung Pham, Tan Minh Nguyen
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper systematically explores neural functional networks (NFN) for transformer architectures. NFN are specialized neural networks that treat the weights, gradients, or sparsity patterns of a deep neural network (DNN) as input data and have proven valuable for tasks such as learnable optimizers, implicit data representations, and weight editing. The paper aims to address the gap in designing NFN for transformers, which is crucial given their importance in modern deep learning. The authors first determine the maximal symmetric group of the weights in a multi-head attention module and provide a necessary and sufficient condition under which two sets of hyperparameters define the same function. They then define the weight space of transformer architectures and its associated group action, leading to design principles for NFN in transformers. The paper introduces Transformer-NFN, an NFN that is equivariant under this group action. The authors also release a dataset of over 125,000 Transformers model checkpoints trained on two datasets with two different tasks, providing a benchmark for evaluating Transformer-NFN and encouraging further research on transformer training and performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper explores new ways to make deep learning models called transformers work better. It looks at something called neural functional networks (NFN), which are special kinds of computer programs that help other programs learn from data. The authors want to figure out how to use these NFN with transformers, because transformers are very important in modern artificial intelligence. The paper starts by finding a special kind of symmetry in the way transformers work and then uses this to design new kinds of NFN just for transformers. They also release a big collection of examples of transformers that have been trained on different tasks, so other researchers can test their own ideas. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Multi head attention » Neural network » Transformer
