Summary of Unveiling the Hidden Structure Of Self-attention Via Kernel Principal Component Analysis, by Rachel S.y. Teo et al.
Unveiling the Hidden Structure of Self-Attention via Kernel Principal Component Analysis
by Rachel S.Y. Teo, Tan M. Nguyen
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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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 explores the connection between transformers’ success in sequence modeling tasks and self-attention mechanisms. The authors derive self-attention from kernel principal component analysis (kernel PCA) and provide an exact formula for the value matrix. They then propose Attention with Robust Principal Components (RPC-Attention), a novel class of robust attention that is resilient to data contamination. The paper empirically demonstrates the advantages of RPC-Attention over softmax attention on various tasks, including image classification, language modeling, and image segmentation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us understand how transformers are able to process sequences so well. It shows that self-attention is a key part of this success. The authors take a different approach to building self-attention mechanisms by using something called kernel principal component analysis (kernel PCA). This new method, called RPC-Attention, is more robust and works better than the usual way of doing things on certain tasks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Image classification » Image segmentation » Pca » Principal component analysis » Self attention » Softmax
