Summary of Reducing Reasoning Costs: the Path Of Optimization For Chain Of Thought Via Sparse Attention Mechanism, by Libo Wang
Reducing Reasoning Costs: The Path of Optimization for Chain of Thought via Sparse Attention Mechanism
by Libo Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- 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 This research addresses the significant increase in inference costs for large language models by proposing a sparse attention mechanism that focuses on only a few relevant tokens. The study uses GiantRabbit, trained with custom GPTs, as an experimental tool to compare its performance with o1 Preview in solving linear algebra test questions from MIT OpenCourseWare. The results show that GiantRabbit’s reasoning time and chain of thought length are significantly lower than those of o1 Preview, verifying the feasibility of sparse attention mechanisms for optimizing chain of thought reasoning. The study also provides detailed architectural details and experimental processes on GitHub. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research solves a big problem with large language models. These models take too long to think about answers. To fix this, the researcher created a new way for the model to focus only on important information. They tested this new method using a special tool and compared it to another popular tool. The results showed that their new method is much faster and more efficient than the other one. This is an important step towards making large language models work better. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Inference
