Architectural Adaptation of LLMs for Long Sequences
To overcome the challenges of processing long sequences, the architecture of Large Language Models is evolving. Driven by issues like the quadratic time complexity of self-attention and the significant memory footprint of the KV cache, model design is shifting away from the standard Transformer towards more efficient variants and alternative architectures.
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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
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