Geometric Progression for ALiBi's Scalar per Head
While the ALiBi bias scalar can be tuned, research shows that an effective alternative for multi-head attention is to set to values that decrease geometrically by a factor of across the heads. This heuristic strategy performs well on a variety of tasks without the need for individual tuning on a validation dataset.
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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models Course
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Geometric Progression for ALiBi's Scalar per Head
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Geometric Progression for ALiBi's Scalar per Head
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Geometric Progression Formula for ALiBi's β Scalar per Head
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