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most citedNeural Architecture Search on Efficient Transformers and Beyond

12 citations · 33 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2024

Scaling Laws for Linear Complexity Language Models

Xuyang Shen, Dong Li, Ruitao Leng +3

The interest in linear complexity models for large language models is on the rise, although their scaling capacity remains uncertain. In this study, we present the scaling laws for…

cs.CL2024

Various Lengths, Constant Speed: Efficient Language Modeling with Lightning Attention

Zhen Qin, Weigao Sun, Dong Li +3

We present Lightning Attention, the first linear attention implementation that maintains a constant training speed for various sequence lengths under fixed memory consumption. Due…

cs.CL2024

You Only Scan Once: Efficient Multi-dimension Sequential Modeling with LightNet

Zhen Qin, Yuxin Mao, Xuyang Shen +4

Linear attention mechanisms have gained prominence in causal language models due to their linear computational complexity and enhanced speed. However, the inherent decay mechanism…

cs.CL2024

Unlocking the Secrets of Linear Complexity Sequence Model from A Unified Perspective

Zhen Qin, Xuyang Shen, Dong Li +4

We present the Linear Complexity Sequence Model (LCSM), a comprehensive solution that unites various sequence modeling techniques with linear complexity, including linear attention…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

HGRN2: Gated Linear RNNs with State Expansion

Zhen Qin, Songlin Yang, Weixuan Sun +4

Hierarchically gated linear RNN (HGRN, \citealt{HGRN}) has demonstrated competitive training speed and performance in language modeling while offering efficient inference. However,…

cs.LG2024

Linear Attention Sequence Parallelism

Weigao Sun, Zhen Qin, Dong Li +3

Sequence parallelism (SP) serves as a prevalent strategy to handle long sequences that exceed the memory limit of a single device. However, for linear sequence modeling methods lik…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

CO2: Efficient Distributed Training with Full Communication-Computation Overlap

Weigao Sun, Zhen Qin, Weixuan Sun +5

The fundamental success of large language models hinges upon the efficacious implementation of large-scale distributed training techniques. Nevertheless, building a vast, high-perf…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Lightning Attention-2: A Free Lunch for Handling Unlimited Sequence Lengths in Large Language Models

Zhen Qin, Weigao Sun, Dong Li +3

Linear attention is an efficient attention mechanism that has recently emerged as a promising alternative to conventional softmax attention. With its ability to process tokens in l…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Linearized Relative Positional Encoding

Zhen Qin, Weixuan Sun, Kaiyue Lu +6

Relative positional encoding is widely used in vanilla and linear transformers to represent positional information. However, existing encoding methods of a vanilla transformer are…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

TransNormerLLM: A Faster and Better Large Language Model with Improved TransNormer

Zhen Qin, Dong Li, Weigao Sun +8

We present TransNormerLLM, the first linear attention-based Large Language Model (LLM) that outperforms conventional softmax attention-based models in terms of both accuracy and ef…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Toeplitz Neural Network for Sequence Modeling

Zhen Qin, Xiaodong Han, Weixuan Sun +6

Sequence modeling has important applications in natural language processing and computer vision. Recently, the transformer-based models have shown strong performance on various seq…

cs.CV2023

Fine-grained Audible Video Description

Xuyang Shen, Dong Li, Jinxing Zhou +9

We explore a new task for audio-visual-language modeling called fine-grained audible video description (FAVD). It aims to provide detailed textual descriptions for the given audibl…

cs.PF2023★ 2 cited

AttMEMO : Accelerating Transformers with Memoization on Big Memory Systems

Yuan Feng, Hyeran Jeon, Filip Blagojevic +3

Transformer models gain popularity because of their superior inference accuracy and inference throughput. However, the transformer is computation-intensive, causing a long inferenc…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Linear Video Transformer with Feature Fixation

Kaiyue Lu, Zexiang Liu, Jianyuan Wang +8

Vision Transformers have achieved impressive performance in video classification, while suffering from the quadratic complexity caused by the Softmax attention mechanism. Some stud…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

Neural Architecture Search on Efficient Transformers and Beyond

Zexiang Liu, Dong Li, Kaiyue Lu +4

Recently, numerous efficient Transformers have been proposed to reduce the quadratic computational complexity of standard Transformers caused by the Softmax attention. However, mos…