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My work (arxiv.org/abs/2406.17692) w/ @gregdnlp.bsky.social & @eunsol.bsky.social exploring the connection between LLM alignment and response pluralism will be at pluralistic-alignment.github.io Saturday. Drop by to learn more!
Posts by Thom Lake
Due to the split between the inputs statements and query, the resulting model isn't a generic sequence processor like RNNs or transformers. However, if you were to process a sequence by treating each element as a new query, you'd get something that looks a lot like a transformer.
MemNets first encode each input sentence/statement with a position embedding independently. These are the "memories". Finally, you encode the query and apply cross-attention between that and the memories. Rinse and repeat for some fixed depth. No for-loop over time here.
The recurrence there is referencing depth-wise weight tying (see Section 2.2).
> Layer-wise (RNN-like): the input and output embeddings are the same across different layers
Memory networks were earlier, attention only, and had position embeddings, but were not word/token level: arxiv.org/abs/1503.08895
They were later elaborated with the key-value distinction which is, AFAIK, where this terminology arises: arxiv.org/abs/1606.03126
A scatter plot comparing language models by performance (y-axis, measured in average performance on 10 benchmarks) versus training computational cost (x-axis, in approximate FLOPs). The plot shows OLMo 2 models (marked with stars) achieving Pareto-optimal efficiency among open models, with OLMo-2-13B and OLMo-2-7B sitting at the performance frontier relative to other open models like DCLM, Llama 3.1, StableLM 2, and Qwen 2.5. The x-axis ranges from 4x10^22 to 2x10^24 FLOPs, while the y-axis ranges from 35 to 70 benchmark points.
Excited to share OLMo 2!
π 7B and 13B weights, trained up to 4-5T tokens, fully open data, code, etc
π better architecture and recipe for training stability
π‘ staged training, with new data mix Dolminoπ added during annealing
π¦ state-of-the-art OLMo 2 Instruct models
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