Linformer

video and paper.

Remarks:

  • Project embedding to lower dimension to save computational complexity and space
  • Some gain in speed but doesn’t look too significant. Tradeoff in performance seems larger than claimed
  • Theorem 1 based on JL-lemma did not used properties of attention itself. It seems that the same argument can be used to anywhere (besides attention). The theorem itself seems to be a bit a stretch
  • With the same goal of speeding up transformer, the “kernelized transformer” appears to be a better work

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