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Transformer Quality in Linear Time
Weizhe Hua · Zihang Dai · Hanxiao Liu · Quoc Le
We challenge some key design choices in Transformers by presenting a simpler yet more powerful layer named gated attention unit. The layer offers several desirable properties that enable a high-performance, accelerator-friendly approximate attention mechanism. The resulting architecture family, named FLAC, simultaneously achieves Transformer quality and linear cost over a wide range of context lengths (from 512 to 8K). Experiments on bidirectional and auto-regressive language modeling tasks demonstrate that FLAC can compete with fully augmented Transformers in quality, while being substantially faster to train than existing efficient attention methods.
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Weizhe Hua (Cornell University / Google Brain)
Zihang Dai
Hanxiao Liu (Google Brain)
Quoc Le (Google Brain)
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