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# You Only Cache Once - Decoder-Decoder Architectures for Language Models
Researchers have proposed a new architecture called YOCO (You Only Cache Once) for large language models. YOCO is a decoder-decoder architecture that significantly reduces the memory demands of key-value (KV) caches, which are crucial for efficient inference in language models. The architecture consists of a self-decoder and a cross-decoder, with the self-decoder generating global KV caches that are reused by the cross-decoder through cross-attention. YOCO achieves competitive performance compared to Transformer models while reducing GPU memory consumption and improving prefilling time. The architecture is scalable, allowing for larger model sizes, more training tokens, and longer context lengths. Experimental results show favorable language modeling performance and improved inference efficiency.
# Video Diffusion Models - A Survey
This survey explores the use of diffusion generative models for video generation. Diffusion models have shown promise in generating high-quality images, and the survey examines how these models can be adapted for video generation. The survey categorizes the applications of video diffusion models, discusses the mathematical formulation of the models, and explores various architectural choices. It also examines the modeling of temporal dynamics in video diffusion models and discusses challenges and future directions in the field. The survey provides an overview of recent advancements and summarizes notable papers in the field. The implications of video diffusion models include their potential for generating coherent and realistic videos based on different modalities such as text, images, and audio. The survey highlights the challenges that need to be addressed, such as maintaining temporal consistency and generating long videos. The research presented in the survey has implications for applications in entertainment, decision-making, and video editing.
# DeepSeek-V2 - A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model
This paper introduces DeepSeek-V2, a strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model that is trained economically and performs efficient inference. It achieves this through two innovative architectures: Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and DeepSeekMoE. MLA reduces the Key-Value (KV) cache during inference by compressing it into a latent vector, while DeepSeekMoE enables training strong models at a lower cost through sparse computation. DeepSeek-V2 achieves top-tier performance among open-source models with only 21B activated parameters. It saves 42.5% of training costs, reduces the KV cache by 93.3%, and boosts the maximum generation throughput by 5.76 times. The model is pretrained on a high-quality corpus and further fine-tuned through supervised and reinforcement learning. It achieves top-ranking performance in both English and Chinese benchmarks, including open-ended conversations.
# How does GPT-2 Predict Acronyms? Extracting and Understanding a Circuit via Mechanistic Interpretability
This research focuses on understanding how GPT-2 Small, a language model, predicts three-letter acronyms. The study applies Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) techniques to reverse-engineer the model's behavior. The researchers discover a circuit composed of 8 attention heads that are responsible for acronym prediction. These heads are classified into three groups based on their role. The study also shows that isolating this circuit preserves and even improves the model's performance on the acronym prediction task. The researchers further interpret the main components of the circuit, termed "letter mover heads," and find that they utilize positional information via the causal mask mechanism. This work lays the foundation for understanding more complex behaviors involving multiple-token predictions in language models.
# Gaussian Splatting - 3D Reconstruction and Novel View Synthesis, a Review
This paper reviews the state-of-the-art techniques in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis using Gaussian Splatting. Gaussian Splatting is a method that uses iterative refinement of multiple Gaussians to generate 3D objects from 2D images, allowing for the rendering of novel views in complex scenes through interpolation.
The paper provides an overview of recent developments in Gaussian Splatting, including the types of input, model structures, output representations, and training strategies. It also discusses unresolved challenges and future directions in this field.
The core assertion of this paper is that Gaussian Splatting is an effective approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis, offering advantages such as real-time rendering, competitive training time, and high-quality rendering. The methodology involves converting 3D point clouds or meshes into Gaussian splats, training the model using differentiable Gaussian rasterization, and rendering the splats in 2D space.
The results of this review show that Gaussian Splatting has gained significant popularity since its inception in 2023 and has been applied in various domains such as computer graphics, robotics, and virtual reality. The technique has shown promising results in generating realistic 3D models and rendering novel views.
Critiques of Gaussian Splatting include its reliance on point clouds or meshes as input, which may not capture all the geometric details of a scene. Additionally, the computational demands of the technique may limit its applicability to real-time or dynamic scenes.
The implications of this research are significant, as Gaussian Splatting offers a novel and efficient approach to 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. The technique has the potential to enhance various applications in computer vision, robotics, and virtual reality, providing more realistic and immersive experiences.
In conclusion, this paper provides a comprehensive review of Gaussian Splatting in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis, highlighting its advantages, challenges, and future directions. The technique shows promise in generating high-quality 3D models and rendering novel views, opening up new possibilities in computer graphics and computer vision applications.
# Mixture of partially linear experts
This research paper proposes a new model called the mixture of partially linear experts (MoPLE) that combines the flexibility of partially linear models with the clustering capabilities of mixture models. The MoPLE model allows for both linear and non-linear relationships between the response variable and covariates by incorporating unspecified functions. The paper establishes the identifiability of the model and presents an estimation algorithm.
Simulation studies are conducted to compare the performance of MoPLE with other existing methods under different scenarios. The results show that MoPLE performs competitively and often outperforms the other methods in terms of estimating regression coefficients and clustering performance.
The proposed MoPLE model is then applied to a real dataset, the Prestige dataset, to demonstrate its practical utility. The BIC criterion is used to select the appropriate number of components, and the clustering performance is evaluated using ARI and AMI. The results show that MoPLE performs well in terms of clustering accuracy.
Overall, the MoPLE model offers a flexible and effective approach for regression clustering by capturing both linear and non-linear relationships between variables. The proposed model can be applied to various fields and provides valuable insights into the relationships among variables.
# Anchored Answers - Unravelling Positional Bias in GPT-2's Multiple-Choice Questions
The study investigates the anchored bias in GPT-2 models in the context of multiple-choice questions (MCQs). The researchers use a mechanistic interpretability approach to identify the internal modules responsible for this bias, focusing on the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) layers and attention heads. They find that certain value vectors in the MLP and specific attention heads contribute to the anchored bias, favoring the first choice 'A' regardless of its actual position in the MCQ prompt. The researchers propose interventions to mitigate this bias by updating the critical value vectors in the MLP and recalibrating attention patterns. These interventions not only correct the bias but also improve the overall MCQ prediction accuracy of the GPT-2 models. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the anchored bias in MCQs and introduces strategies to enhance model robustness and accuracy.
# Lory - Fully Differentiable Mixture-of-Experts for Autoregressive Language Model Pre-training
This preprint introduces Lory, a fully differentiable MoE (Mixture-of-Experts) architecture designed for autoregressive language model pre-training. Lory overcomes the challenge of training discrete routers by using soft expert merging, allowing for efficient scaling. The authors propose two key techniques: causal segment routing and similarity-based data batching. Experimental results show that Lory models achieve significant performance gains over dense models on perplexity and downstream tasks, demonstrating the effectiveness of fully differentiable MoE architectures for language modeling. The trained experts in Lory also capture domain-level specialization without supervision. This work highlights the potential of fully differentiable MoE architectures for language model pre-training and encourages further research in this area.
# Lumina-T2X - Transforming Text into Any Modality, Resolution, and Duration via Flow-based Large Diffusion Transformers
Lumina-T2X is a family of Flow-based Large Diffusion Transformers (Flag-DiT) designed to generate images, videos, multi-view 3D objects, and audio clips based on text instructions. It utilizes a unified framework that can handle different modalities, resolutions, and durations. The models are trained using advanced techniques like RoPE, RMSNorm, and flow matching, allowing for scalability up to 7 billion parameters and extending the context window to 128K tokens.
The core contributions of Lumina-T2X include the scalability of Flag-DiT, which enables training models with billions of parameters, and the flexibility to generate multimodal data at any resolution, aspect ratio, and length during inference. The training computational costs of Lumina-T2I, a text-to-image model, are significantly reduced compared to previous models, indicating that increasing the number of parameters accelerates convergence without compromising visual quality.
The methodology involves tokenizing different modalities and incorporating placeholders like [nextline] and [nextframe] tokens to unify the representations across various resolutions and durations. This allows for seamless generation of multimodal data. The pretrained Lumina-T2I model demonstrates capabilities such as resolution extrapolation, high-resolution editing, and compositional generation.
The results show that Lumina-T2I can generate high-quality images at arbitrary resolutions and aspect ratios, perform high-resolution editing based on text instructions, and compose images based on multiple captions. The pretrained Lumina-T2V model can generate 720p videos of any aspect ratio and duration. The models in the Lumina-T2X family exhibit improved scene transitions, alignment with text instructions, and generate videos with realistic or imaginative scenes.
Critiques of Lumina-T2X may include the limitations in video length and quality compared to other models like Sora. The training resources required for Lumina-T2X are relatively low, but the models can still generate high-resolution images and videos. The resolution extrapolation capability of Lumina-T2I may be limited by the training data, and further research is needed to explore its full potential.
The implications of Lumina-T2X are its potential for generating photorealistic images and videos at arbitrary resolutions, aspect ratios, and durations. The open-sourcing of Lumina-T2X will facilitate research and creativity in the generative AI community.
# Organizing a Society of Language Models - Structures and Mechanisms for Enhanced Collective Intelligence
This paper proposes a transformative approach to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by organizing them into community-based structures. The motivations for this approach stem from the limitations of individual LLMs in handling complex tasks. By organizing LLMs into communities, we can leverage their collective intelligence and problem-solving capabilities.
The paper explores different organizational models for LLM communities, including hierarchical, flat, dynamic, and federated structures. Each structure has its own benefits and challenges, and they can be tailored to enhance complex reasoning tasks.
Interaction mechanisms play a crucial role in facilitating collaboration among LLMs. The paper discusses three primary methods: direct communication, voting systems, and market-based approaches. These mechanisms enable LLMs to exchange information, make collective decisions, and solve complex problems together.
To ensure effective operations and ethical standards, governance strategies must be in place. The paper emphasizes the need for efficient decision-making, conflict resolution, and consistent protocols across LLM communities. It also highlights the importance of a unified legal framework to maintain fairness and consistency.
The implications of this approach are significant, as it can enhance the problem-solving capabilities of LLMs and enable them to tackle complex, multidisciplinary tasks more effectively. However, implementing and managing LLM communities pose technical challenges, such as data management, information overload, and maintaining synchronization.
Overall, this paper lays the groundwork for future research on community-based LLMs, advocating for a paradigm shift from isolated to synergistic operational frameworks in AI.
# A Transformer with Stack Attention
In this paper, we propose a modification to the transformer architecture, called stack attention, that allows it to learn certain context-free languages. The stack attention mechanism simulates a stack by maintaining a probability distribution over the indices of subsequent tokens. We integrate stack attention into the transformer by adding it as a sub-layer in each layer. Our experiments show that the stack-augmented transformer outperforms the standard transformer on two out of four deterministic context-free tasks. However, it still struggles with tasks involving modular arithmetic. The stack-augmented transformer has a computational overhead in terms of time complexity and space complexity, but it provides a level of interpretability and can be integrated into pre-trained language models. The expressive power of the stack-augmented transformer is still an open question, and we conjecture that it cannot model all context-free languages without positional encodings.
# Geometry and Dynamics of LayerNorm
This technical note provides a detailed analysis of the LayerNorm function commonly used in deep neural networks, aiming to offer a deeper understanding of its behavior and implications. The authors break down LayerNorm into a composition of simpler functions, including linear projection, nonlinear scaling, and affine transformation. They derive a new mathematical expression for LayerNorm that makes these components more explicit. The authors also identify the orthogonal subspace of the bias-corrected image of activations after LayerNorm and determine the principal axes of the resulting hyperellipsoid. The results provide insights into the geometry and dynamics of LayerNorm and contribute to a better understanding of its role in neural networks.
# Philosophy of Cognitive Science in the Age of Deep Learning
Deep learning has made significant advancements in artificial intelligence, surpassing human performance in various tasks. These achievements have implications for the philosophy of cognitive science, as they challenge previous limitations of neural network models and can inform our understanding of human cognition. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have overcome previous challenges by using complex architectures and training techniques to learn abstract representations and induce generalizable computations. This progress has relevance to long-standing debates in cognitive science, such as the language of thought hypothesis, and raises questions about the content-specificity and compositional generalization abilities of DNNs. Moreover, DNNs have shown promising results in systematic compositional generalization tasks, suggesting that they can account for the structure-sensitive properties of cognition. However, the extent to which DNNs implement a language of thought architecture is still debated, as their mechanisms for variable binding and content-specificity differ from classical architectures. Additionally, DNNs exhibit non-content-specific computations and can converge with human performance on reasoning tasks. These advancements have implications for the grounding problem, as DNNs can acquire world-involving functions, and for theoretical linguistics, as they challenge some tenets of generative linguistics. Finally, methodological issues arise in evaluating and comparing DNNs with humans, and insights from cognitive science and philosophy can inform evaluation practices in deep learning.
# Towards a Formal Creativity Theory - Preliminary results in Novelty and Transformativeness
This paper explores the application of Formal Learning Theory (FLT) to Computational Creativity (CC). The authors propose formal definitions for creativity-related terms, such as novelty and transformational creativity, based on FLT concepts. They argue that learning is a crucial part of transformational creative behavior and demonstrate that while novelty is not necessary or sufficient for transformational creativity in general, it is required when using an inspiring set of experiences. The paper introduces the SILIT framework, which formalizes the components of empirical inquiry, including the class of possible realities, intelligible hypotheses, extensive data, a learner, and criteria for success. The authors provide formal definitions for these components, such as languages, grammars, and texts, and introduce the concept of a scientist as a function that turns data into hypotheses. They define identification as the convergence of a scientist on a text and discuss the identifiability of classes of languages. The paper suggests that FLT can provide a formal foundation for CC and open new avenues for theoretical exploration of creativity.
# Folded context condensation in Path Integral formalism for infinite context transformers
This short note proposes a method to maintain contextual information in attention-based transformers, such as GPT models, without increasing memory requirements. The authors reinterpret the attention algorithm in the framework of path integral formalism, where the time evolution of a token state is represented as a sequence of transformations. By condensing the folded sequences of token states, the model can maintain infinite contextual information using limited memory. The implementation involves two transformers: one for local context and one for global context. The model achieves promising results in preserving long context sequences. The approach offers new insights into the role of transformers and suggests potential applications for improving transformer performance.
# Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the 'Reversal Curse' via Training Dynamics
This paper analyzes the "reversal curse" phenomenon observed in auto-regressive large language models (LLMs), where the model fails to generalize from the training direction to the reversed direction in logical reasoning tasks. The authors provide a theoretical analysis of this phenomenon using the training dynamics of two types of models: a bilinear model and one-layer transformers. They show that the asymmetry of the model weights is a core reason for the reversal curse. The analysis also extends to other logical reasoning tasks, such as chain-of-thought. The authors validate their theoretical results through experiments on multi-layer transformers. The implications of this work highlight the importance of in-context learning, data augmentation, or planning for LLMs to solve complex reasoning tasks.
# Exploring the Frontiers of Softmax - Provable Optimization, Applications in Diffusion Model, and Beyond
This paper provides a theoretical study of the optimization and generalization properties of two-layer softmax neural networks, with a focus on understanding their effectiveness. The authors use the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) framework to analyze the learning dynamics of these networks. They show that the normalization effect of the softmax function leads to a good perturbation property of the induced NTK matrix, resulting in a convex region in the loss landscape. This allows softmax neural networks to effectively learn the target function in the over-parametrization regime. The authors also apply their theoretical findings to the task of learning score estimation functions in diffusion models and show that gradient-based algorithms can learn the score function with provable accuracy. The main result of the paper is that two-layer softmax networks require almost the same number of neurons and training steps as networks with ReLU or exponential activation functions to achieve convergence. The implications of this work include a deeper understanding of the effectiveness of softmax neural networks and their potential applications in various domains such as natural language processing and generative modeling.
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