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Training speed on longer sequences

by Gating TechnologyJanuary 14th, 2025
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The research paper compares training speeds across different model sizes and sequence lengths to conclude the computational advantages of Hawk and Griffin.
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Authors:

(1) Soham De, Google DeepMind and with Equal contributions;

(2) Samuel L. Smith, Google DeepMind and with Equal contributions;

(3) Anushan Fernando, Google DeepMind and with Equal contributions;

(4) Aleksandar Botev, Google DeepMind and with Equal contributions;

(5) George Cristian-Muraru, Google DeepMind and with Equal contributions;

(6) Albert Gu, Work done while at Google DeepMind;

(7) Ruba Haroun, Google DeepMind;

(8) Leonard Berrada, Google DeepMind;

(9) Yutian Chen, Google DeepMind;

(10) Srivatsan Srinivasan, Google DeepMind;

(11) Guillaume Desjardins, Google DeepMind;

(12) Arnaud Doucet, Google DeepMind;

(13) David Budden, Google DeepMind;

(14) Yee Whye Teh, Google DeepMind;

(15) David Budden, Google DeepMind;

(16) Razvan Pascanu, Google DeepMind;

(17) Nando De Freitas, Google DeepMind;

(18) Caglar Gulcehre, Google DeepMind.

1 Introduction

2 Model Architecture

3 Recurrent Models Scale as Efficiently as Transformers

3.1. Scaling curves

3.2. Evaluation on downstream tasks

4 Training Recurrent Models Efficiently on Device and 4.1. Model parallelism for large scale training

4.2. Efficient linear recurrences on device

4.3. Training speed on longer sequences

5. Inference Speed

5.1. A simple model of the decode step

5.2. Results

6. Long Context Modeling and 6.1. Improving next token prediction with longer contexts

6.2. Copy and retrieval capabilities

7. Related Works

8. Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and References


A. RG-LRU Recurrence Gate

B. Complex-Gated Linear Recurrent Unit (CG-LRU)

C. Model Scale Hyper-Parameters

D. Efficient Linear Recurrences on Device

E. The Local Attention Window Size of Griffin

F. Inference Speeds

G. Improving Next Token Prediction with Longer Contexts: Additional Results

H. Additional Details of the Copy and Retrieval Tasks

4.3. Training speed on longer sequences


This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license.