Efficient Infinite Context Transformers #ai #machinelearning #research #llms #science

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hi everyone so I have a new paper here and this is a very exciting paper by Google that integrates compressive memory into a vanilla. product attention layer the goal of this approach is to enable Transformer large language models to effectively process infinitely long inputs with Bound in memory footprint and computation so they propose a new attention technique called infin attention which incorporates a compressive memory module into a vanilla attention mechanism it builds in both mask local attention and long-term linear attention into a single Transformer block this allows the infinity Transformer model to efficiently handle both long and short range contextual dependencies this approach will perform SpaceTime models on Long context language moding with a4x compression ratio of memory they also show that a 1 billion large language model can naturally scale to 1 million sequence length and a 8 billion parameter model achieves a new sorta result on a 500K length book summarization task so given how important long context large language moldes are becoming today having an effective memory system could unlock powerful reasoning planning continual adaption and capabilities not seen before in large language models feel free to like and comment if you want to see more of these short summaries see you in the next one