Architectural Shift in LLMs due to Long-Sequence Limitations
The dual challenges of quadratic time complexity in self-attention and the substantial memory footprint from the linearly growing KV cache render standard Transformers impractical for very long sequences. As a direct result, the architectural design of long-context LLMs is evolving away from the standard model, focusing instead on the development of more efficient variants and alternative structures.
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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
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