Transformer Performance: Hopfield Theory & Cross-Entropy Loss Data

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Abstract and 1 Introduction

2 Related Work

3 Model and 3.1 Associative memories

3.2 Transformer blocks

4 A New Energy Function

4.1 The layered structure

5 Cross-Entropy Loss

6 Empirical Results and 6.1 Empirical evaluation of the radius

6.2 Training GPT-2

6.3 Training Vanilla Transformers

7 Conclusion and Acknowledgments

Appendix A. Deferred Tables

Appendix B. Some Properties of the Energy Functions

Appendix C. Deferred Proofs from Section 5

Appendix D. Transformer Details: Using GPT-2 as an Example

References

Appendix A. Deferred Tables

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Authors:

(1) Xueyan Niu, Theory Laboratory, Central Research Institute, 2012 Laboratories, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.;

(2) Bo Bai baibo (8@huawei.com);

(3) Lei Deng (deng.lei2@huawei.com);

(4) Wei Han (harvey.hanwei@huawei.com).

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