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Fine-Tuning for Sparse Attention Adaptation
An effective strategy for adapting Large Language Models to handle long contexts involves transitioning their attention mechanisms. An LLM initially pre-trained using a full attention model can be adapted by replacing it with a sparse attention model during the fine-tuning phase. In this process, the pre-trained LLM supplies the initial parameter values for the new model, which is then fine-tuned to accommodate the sparse architecture.
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Foundations of Large Language Models
Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models Course
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