Long Range Arena

Long Range Arena: A Benchmark for Efficient Transformers

Mostafa Dehghani

Transformers do not scale very well to long sequence lengths largely because of quadratic self-attention complexity. In the recent months, a wide spectrum of efficient, fast Transformers have been proposed to tackle this problem (check out this post). However, there was no well-established way on how to evaluate this class of models in a systematic way […]

Efficient Transformers

Mostafa Dehghani

Transformers has garnered immense interest lately due to their effectiveness across a range of domains like language, vision and reinforcement learning.  The self-attention mechanism is a key defining characteristic of Transformer models. The mechanism can be viewed as a graph-like inductive bias that connects all tokens in a sequence with a relevance-based pooling operation. A […]