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most citedFast Attention Requires Bounded Entries

9 citations · 80 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG20241 cited

The Fine-Grained Complexity of Gradient Computation for Training Large Language Models

Josh Alman, Zhao Song

Large language models (LLMs) have made fundamental contributions over the last a few years. To train an LLM, one needs to alternatingly run `forward' computations and `backward' co…

cs.LG2023

Fast Heavy Inner Product Identification Between Weights and Inputs in Neural Network Training

Lianke Qin, Saayan Mitra, Zhao Song +2

In this paper, we consider a heavy inner product identification problem, which generalizes the Light Bulb problem~(\cite{prr89}): Given two sets and $B \sub…

cs.LG20231 cited

Unmasking Transformers: A Theoretical Approach to Data Recovery via Attention Weights

Yichuan Deng, Zhao Song, Shenghao Xie +1

In the realm of deep learning, transformers have emerged as a dominant architecture, particularly in natural language processing tasks. However, with their widespread adoption, con…

cs.DS20231 cited

How to Capture Higher-order Correlations? Generalizing Matrix Softmax Attention to Kronecker Computation

Josh Alman, Zhao Song

In the classical transformer attention scheme, we are given three size matrices (the query, key, and value tokens), and the goal is to compute a new $n \time…

cs.LG20233 cited

Fine-tune Language Models to Approximate Unbiased In-context Learning

Timothy Chu, Zhao Song, Chiwun Yang

In-context learning (ICL) is an astonishing emergent ability of large language models (LLMs). By presenting a prompt that includes multiple input-output pairs as examples and intro…

cs.LG20231 cited

A Unified Scheme of ResNet and Softmax

Zhao Song, Weixin Wang, Junze Yin

Large language models (LLMs) have brought significant changes to human society. Softmax regression and residual neural networks (ResNet) are two important techniques in deep learni…