Summary of Recurrent Context Compression: Efficiently Expanding the Context Window Of Llm, by Chensen Huang et al.
Recurrent Context Compression: Efficiently Expanding the Context Window of LLM
by Chensen Huang, Guibo Zhu, Xuepeng Wang, Yifei Luo, Guojing Ge, Haoran Chen, Dong Yi, Jinqiao Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Recurrent Context Compression (RCC), a method to efficiently expand the context window length of Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) while operating within constrained storage space. The authors investigate poor model responses caused by compressing both instructions and context, proposing an instruction reconstruction method to mitigate this issue. They demonstrate RCC’s effectiveness on multiple tasks, achieving a compression rate of up to 32x with a BLEU4 score close to 0.95, nearly 100% accuracy in passkey retrieval, and competitive performance in long-text question-answering tasks while saving storage resources. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps computers understand longer texts by compressing the information they need to know. This allows for better text comprehension and saves memory storage space. The authors show that their method can achieve good results on different tasks like text reconstruction, passkey retrieval, and question-answering, while using much less computer memory. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Context window * Question answering * Transformer
