AI Technology & Industry Review
A research team from Cornell University and Google Brain introduces FLASH, a model family that achieves quality on par with fully augmented transformers while maintaining linear scalability over the context size on modern accelerators.
In the new paper Self-attention Does Not Need O(n2) Memory, a Google Research team presents novel and simple algorithms for attention and self-attention that require only constant memory and logarithmic memory and reduce the self-attention memory overhead by 59x for inference and by 32x for differentiation at a sequence length of 16384.
In the new paper Understanding How Encoder-Decoder Architectures Attend, researchers from the University of Washington, Google Blueshift Team and Google Brain Team propose a method for decomposing hidden states over a sequence into temporal- and input-driven components, revealing how attention matrices are formed in encoder-decoder networks.
A team from Tsinghua University and Microsoft Research Asia proposes Fastformer, an efficient Transformer variant based on additive attention that achieves effective context modelling with linear complexity.
A Google Research team draws inspiration from two numerical analysis methods — Hierarchical Matrix (H-Matrix) and Multigrid — to address the quadratic complexity problem of attention mechanisms in transformer architectures, proposing a hierarchical attention scheme that has linear complexity in run time and memory.
Researchers argue that “attention mechanism is the update rule of a modern Hopfield network with continuous states.”