ALiBi | Train Short, Test Long: Attention With Linear Biases Enables Input Length Extrapolation

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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦ JOIN OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY: Discord β–Ί https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE πŸ“’ SUBSCRIBE TO MY MONTHLY AI NEWSLETTER: Substack β–Ί https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ ❀️ Become The AI Epiphany Patreon ❀️ β–Ί https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany In this video I cover ALiBi model from the "Train Short, Test Long: Attention With Linear Biases Enables Input Length Extrapolation" paper. Instead of using positional embeddings (like e.g. the original transformer) they added non-learnable biases directly into the query-key matrix and achieved extraordinary extrapolation results (i.e. great perf on longer sequences). β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ βœ… Paper: https://ofir.io/train_short_test_long.pdf βœ… Code: https://github.com/ofirpress/attention_with_linear_biases β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00 Intro 02:00 Main results 03:30 Time and memory tradeoffs 05:00 ALiBi method explained 10:00 Results, low data regime 12:35 Generalization to different datasets 13:15 Results, big data regime 16:00 Why does it work and future work 21:10 Outro β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ’° BECOME A PATREON OF THE AI EPIPHANY ❀️ If these videos, GitHub projects, and blogs help you, consider helping me out by supporting me on Patreon! The AI Epiphany β–Ί https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany One-time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theaiepiphany Much love! ❀️ Huge thank you to these AI Epiphany patreons: Eli Mahler Petar VeličkoviΔ‡ Zvonimir Sabljic β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ’‘ The AI Epiphany is a channel dedicated to simplifying the field of AI using creative visualizations and in general, a stronger focus on geometrical and visual intuition, rather than the algebraic and numerical "intuition". β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ‘‹ CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL LinkedIn β–Ί https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksagordic/ Twitter β–Ί https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa Instagram β–Ί https://www.instagram.com/aiepiphany/ Facebook β–Ί https://www.facebook.com/aiepiphany/ πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦ JOIN OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY: Discord β–Ί https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE πŸ“’ SUBSCRIBE TO MY MONTHLY AI NEWSLETTER: Substack β–Ί https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ πŸ’» FOLLOW ME ON GITHUB FOR ML PROJECTS: GitHub β–Ί https://github.com/gordicaleksa πŸ“š FOLLOW ME ON MEDIUM: Medium β–Ί https://gordicaleksa.medium.com/ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ #alibi #transformers #extrapolation

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