Summary of Finch: Prompt-guided Key-value Cache Compression, by Giulio Corallo and Paolo Papotti
Finch: Prompt-guided Key-Value Cache Compression
by Giulio Corallo, Paolo Papotti
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| Summary difficulty | Written by | Summary |
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Finch approach allows large language models to process longer input contexts by compressing the input using pre-trained model weights. The method iteratively identifies key-value pairs in chunks of text conditioned on a prompt, storing only relevant information in a cache that can fit within the context window. This enables models to consume large inputs with high compression ratios (up to 93x) without requiring fine-tuning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to have a conversation with an AI chatbot. The problem is that current language models are limited by how much information they can understand at one time. Finch solves this problem by finding the most important parts of long texts and storing them in a special cache. This lets the model process much longer texts without getting overwhelmed, making it better for applications like Retrieval-Augmented Generation. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Context window » Fine tuning » Prompt » Retrieval augmented generation
