Summary of Normalized Narrow Jump to Conclusions: Normalized Narrow Shortcuts For Parameter Efficient Early Exit Transformer Prediction, by Amrit Diggavi Seshadri
Normalized Narrow Jump To Conclusions: Normalized Narrow Shortcuts for Parameter Efficient Early Exit Transformer Prediction
by Amrit Diggavi Seshadri
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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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 two new methods, Narrow Jump to Conclusions (NJTC) and Normalized Narrow Jump to Conclusions (N-NJTC), to reduce the computational cost of shortcut casting in large transformer-based language models. These methods are designed to improve the precision of early inference while reducing the number of parameters required by over 97%. The paper shows that N-NJTC outperforms Identity shortcuts at early stages and offers stable precision across all transformer block levels for three different model architectures, demonstrating the viability of more parameter-efficient shortcutting approaches. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers are trying to make big language models work faster. They’re doing this by finding a way to skip some calculations in the middle of the model. This can save a lot of computer power and time. The new methods they came up with are called NJTC and N-NJTC. These methods are special shortcuts that help the model make better predictions faster. The paper shows that these shortcuts work well for three different types of language models, which is important because it means we might be able to use them in real-life applications. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Parameter efficient » Precision » Transformer
