Summary of Mambabyte: Token-free Selective State Space Model, by Junxiong Wang et al.
MambaByte: Token-free Selective State Space Model
by Junxiong Wang, Tushaar Gangavarapu, Jing Nathan Yan, Alexander M. Rush
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: 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 The proposed MambaByte model is an adaptation of the Mamba state space model that operates on byte sequences, eliminating the need for subword tokenization. This approach allows for more robust models to noise and enables efficient decoding through speculative decoding with tokenized drafting and byte-level verification. In terms of performance, MambaByte outperforms or matches state-of-the-art subword Transformers in language modeling tasks while maintaining efficiency gains. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MambaByte is a new way to build language models that don’t need to break words into smaller pieces first. This helps make the models more robust and efficient. The model uses a special technique called speculative decoding, which lets it guess what comes next in a sentence faster than other models. MambaByte is good at understanding language and can even do better than other popular language models on some tasks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Tokenization
