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# Memory-efficient Transformers via Top-k Attention

@article{Gupta2021MemoryefficientTV,
title={Memory-efficient Transformers via Top-k Attention},
author={Ankit Gupta and Guy Dar and Shaya Goodman and David Ciprut and Jonathan Berant},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2106.06899}
}
Following the success of dot-product attention in Transformers, numerous approximations have been recently proposed to address its quadratic complexity with respect to the input length. While these variants are memory and compute efficient, it is not possible to directly use them with popular pre-trained language models trained using vanilla attention, without an expensive corrective pre-training stage. In this work, we propose a simple yet highly accurate approximation for vanilla attention… Expand

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