arXiv Machine Learning

RED-PIM: Reducing Data Movement for Transformers using Processing-in-Memory

arXiv:2607. 21731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers are widely used across many domains, including natural language processing, computer vision, web search, and DNA sequence analysis.

arXiv AI
Jun 10

Blurry Window Attention

arXiv:2606. 09862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Softmax Attention operation in Transformer language models has a quadratic complexity in the sequence length and a growing state size in the form of KV cache, which becomes a bottleneck in long context scenarios.

By Axel Laborieux, Christos Sourmpis, Juan Gabriel Kostelec, Qinghai Guo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Controllably Efficient Language Models

arXiv:2511. 05313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The substantial inference costs of attention in transformers motivated the development of efficient sequence mixers: namely sparse and sliding window attention, convolutions and linear attention.

By Jatin Prakash, Aahlad Puli, Rajesh Ranganath