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most citedRethinking Attention with Performers

120 citations · 253 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.LG2024

Fast Tree-Field Integrators: From Low Displacement Rank to Topological Transformers

Krzysztof Choromanski, Arijit Sehanobish, Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury +4

We present a new class of fast polylog-linear algorithms based on the theory of structured matrices (in particular low displacement rank) for integrating tensor fields defined on w…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

SARA-RT: Scaling up Robotics Transformers with Self-Adaptive Robust Attention

Isabel Leal, Krzysztof Choromanski, Deepali Jain +11

We present Self-Adaptive Robust Attention for Robotics Transformers (SARA-RT): a new paradigm for addressing the emerging challenge of scaling up Robotics Transformers (RT) for on-…

cs.DS2023

Hardness of Low Rank Approximation of Entrywise Transformed Matrix Products

Tamas Sarlos, Xingyou Song, David Woodruff +2

Inspired by fast algorithms in natural language processing, we study low rank approximation in the entrywise transformed setting where we want to find a good rank approximation…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Learning a Fourier Transform for Linear Relative Positional Encodings in Transformers

Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Shanda Li, Valerii Likhosherstov +7

We propose a new class of linear Transformers called FourierLearner-Transformers (FLTs), which incorporate a wide range of relative positional encoding mechanisms (RPEs). These inc…

cs.LG2023

Efficient Graph Field Integrators Meet Point Clouds

Krzysztof Choromanski, Arijit Sehanobish, Han Lin +13

We present two new classes of algorithms for efficient field integration on graphs encoding point clouds. The first class, SeparatorFactorization(SF), leverages the bounded genus o…

cs.LG2023

FAVOR#: Sharp Attention Kernel Approximations via New Classes of Positive Random Features

Valerii Likhosherstov, Krzysztof Choromanski, Avinava Dubey +3

The problem of efficient approximation of a linear operator induced by the Gaussian or softmax kernel is often addressed using random features (RFs) which yield an unbiased approxi…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Chefs' Random Tables: Non-Trigonometric Random Features

Valerii Likhosherstov, Krzysztof Choromanski, Avinava Dubey +3

We introduce chefs' random tables (CRTs), a new class of non-trigonometric random features (RFs) to approximate Gaussian and softmax kernels. CRTs are an alternative to standard ra…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

From block-Toeplitz matrices to differential equations on graphs: towards a general theory for scalable masked Transformers

Krzysztof Choromanski, Han Lin, Haoxian Chen +7

In this paper we provide, to the best of our knowledge, the first comprehensive approach for incorporating various masking mechanisms into Transformers architectures in a scalable…

cs.LG2021

ES-ENAS: Efficient Evolutionary Optimization for Large Hybrid Search Spaces

Xingyou Song, Krzysztof Choromanski, Jack Parker-Holder +8

In this paper, we approach the problem of optimizing blackbox functions over large hybrid search spaces consisting of both combinatorial and continuous parameters. We demonstrate t…

cs.LG2020

Differentially Private Weighted Sampling

Edith Cohen, Ofir Geri, Tamas Sarlos +1

Common datasets have the form of elements with keys (e.g., transactions and products) and the goal is to perform analytics on the aggregated form of key and frequency pairs. A weig…

cs.LG2020★ 120 cited

Rethinking Attention with Performers

Krzysztof Choromanski, Valerii Likhosherstov, David Dohan +10

We introduce Performers, Transformer architectures which can estimate regular (softmax) full-rank-attention Transformers with provable accuracy, but using only linear (as opposed t…

cs.LG2020★ 29 cited

Masked Language Modeling for Proteins via Linearly Scalable Long-Context Transformers

Krzysztof Choromanski, Valerii Likhosherstov, David Dohan +8

Transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results across a diverse range of domains. However, concern over the cost of training the attention mechanism to learn complex dep…

cs.LG2020

Stochastic Flows and Geometric Optimization on the Orthogonal Group

Krzysztof Choromanski, David Cheikhi, Jared Davis +12

We present a new class of stochastic, geometrically-driven optimization algorithms on the orthogonal group and naturally reductive homogeneous manifolds obtained from the ac…

cs.NE2019★ 2 cited

Reinforcement Learning with Chromatic Networks for Compact Architecture Search

Xingyou Song, Krzysztof Choromanski, Jack Parker-Holder +6

We present a neural architecture search algorithm to construct compact reinforcement learning (RL) policies, by combining ENAS and ES in a highly scalable and intuitive way. By def…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Matrix-Free Preconditioning in Online Learning

Ashok Cutkosky, Tamas Sarlos

We provide an online convex optimization algorithm with regret that interpolates between the regret of an algorithm using an optimal preconditioning matrix and one using a diagonal…

stat.ML2019★ 15 cited

Orthogonal Estimation of Wasserstein Distances

Mark Rowland, Jiri Hron, Yunhao Tang +3

Wasserstein distances are increasingly used in a wide variety of applications in machine learning. Sliced Wasserstein distances form an important subclass which may be estimated ef…

cs.LG2017

Linear Additive Markov Processes

Ravi Kumar, Maithra Raghu, Tamas Sarlos +1

We introduce LAMP: the Linear Additive Markov Process. Transitions in LAMP may be influenced by states visited in the distant history of the process, but unlike higher-order Markov…

cs.LG2016★ 24 cited

Structured adaptive and random spinners for fast machine learning computations

Mariusz Bojarski, Anna Choromanska, Krzysztof Choromanski +6

We consider an efficient computational framework for speeding up several machine learning algorithms with almost no loss of accuracy. The proposed framework relies on projections v…

cs.LG2016★ 1 cited

TripleSpin - a generic compact paradigm for fast machine learning computations

Krzysztof Choromanski, Francois Fagan, Cedric Gouy-Pailler +3

We present a generic compact computational framework relying on structured random matrices that can be applied to speed up several machine learning algorithms with almost no loss o…

cs.LG2014★ 13 cited

Fastfood: Approximate Kernel Expansions in Loglinear Time

Quoc Viet Le, Tamas Sarlos, Alexander Johannes Smola

Despite their successes, what makes kernel methods difficult to use in many large scale problems is the fact that storing and computing the decision function is typically expensive…

cs.DS2010★ 19 cited

A Sparse Johnson--Lindenstrauss Transform

Anirban Dasgupta, Ravi Kumar, Tamás Sarlós

Dimension reduction is a key algorithmic tool with many applications including nearest-neighbor search, compressed sensing and linear algebra in the streaming model. In this work w…

cs.DS2007★ 16 cited

Faster Least Squares Approximation

Petros Drineas, Michael W. Mahoney, S. Muthukrishnan +1

Least squares approximation is a technique to find an approximate solution to a system of linear equations that has no exact solution. In a typical setting, one lets be the num…