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48 results for Long Sequences

LTM tackles long sequence language modeling by avoiding vanishing and exploding gradients.

problem Language models struggle with long sequences due to gradient issues.
method Introduces Long Term Memory network (LTM) that scales memory and weights input, avoiding overfitting.
result LTM achieves state-of-the-art perplexity results with fewer cells than previous models.

S3^3Attention improves long sequence attention with smoothed skeleton sketching.

problem Quadratic complexity of vanilla Attention makes it unsuitable for long sequence tasks.
method S3^3Attention uses smoothing and matrix sketching to balance information preservation and computation.
result S3^3Attention significantly outperforms vanilla Attention and other Attention variants.

This paper studies mutual information in sequence models and finds Transformers excel in capturing long-range dependencies.

problem Understanding the expressive power of sequence models in capturing temporal dependencies.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of linear and nonlinear RNNs, including Transformers.
result Transformers can capture long-range mutual information more efficiently than RNNs.

Skeinformer accelerates self-attention for long sequences with linear complexity.

problem Efficiency of Transformer models in processing long sequences.
method Matrix sketching and column sampling to reduce quadratic complexity to linear.
result Skeinformer outperforms alternatives with smaller time/space footprint.

Introduces Spectral Attention for better long-range time series forecasting.

problem Challenges in capturing long-range dependencies in time series forecasting.
method Spectral Attention mechanism that preserves temporal correlations and long-range dependencies.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on 11 real-world time series datasets.

A new method backtracks through a few key past states to speed up credit assignment in long sequences.

problem Computational inefficiency of back-propagation through time for long sequences.
method Sparse attentive backtracking using learned attention mechanisms to skip connections.
result Matches or outperforms regular BPTT and truncated BPTT in tasks with long-term dependencies.

Despite recent advances in training recurrent neural networks (RNNs), capturing long-term dependencies in sequences remains a fundamental challenge. Most approaches use backpropagation through time (BPTT), which is difficult to scale to very long sequences. This paper proposes a simple method that improves the ability …

2018-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New Performer model tackles long-sequence protein modeling.

problem Challenges of training complex Transformer models for long sequences.
method Linearly scalable long-context Transformer architecture, Performer.
result Performer provides strong theoretical guarantees and is effective for protein sequence modeling.

Hrrformer uses HRR to speed up self-attention for long sequences.

problem Infeasibility of using transformers with very long sequence lengths.
method Re-cast self-attention using Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR).
result Achieves near state-of-the-art accuracy with O(THlogH)\mathcal{O}(T H \log H) time complexity and O(TH)\mathcal{O}(T H) space complexity.

Sparse Transformers reduce memory and time requirements for long sequence modeling.

problem Quadratic growth in memory and time with transformer sequence length.
method Sparse factorizations of attention matrix, deeper network training, attention matrix recomputation, fast attention kernels.
result Sparse Transformers can model sequences up to tens of thousands of timesteps with hundreds of layers.

A new method predicts protein functions using variable-length sequences.

problem Computational methods for protein function prediction are slow and inaccurate for long sequences.
method Two feature sets: single fixed-sized segments and multi-sized segments, using bi-directional LSTM. Combined with MLDA features.
result Significant improvement in accuracy for long protein sequences.

Reinforcement learning after next-token prediction aids in learning from diverse sequence lengths.

problem Learning from sequences of varying lengths and complexity.
method Introducing a framework to study reinforcement learning with autoregressive transformers, focusing on next-token prediction and mixture distributions of short and long sequences.
result Reinforcement learning after next-token prediction enables autoregressive transformers to generalize from long sequences, even when they are rare.

Neural M3 model adapts to diverse user behaviors over short and long timeframes.

problem Adapting to diverse user behaviors over short and long timeframes.
method Neural Multi-temporal-range Mixture Model (M3) combining short-term and long-term models with a learned gating mechanism.
result M3 consistently outperforms state-of-the-art sequential recommendation methods.

We give a definition of symplectic homology for pairs of filled Liouville cobordisms, and show that it satisfies analogues of the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms except for the dimension axiom. The resulting long exact sequence of a pair generalizes various earlier long exact sequences such as the handle attaching sequence, …

2015-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Compact Recurrent Transformer (CRT) improves Transformer efficiency for long sequences.

problem Efficiently scaling Transformer architecture to long sequences with limited compute resources.
method Combines shallow Transformer models with recurrent neural networks and persistent memory.
result CRT achieves comparable or superior performance to full-length Transformers with shorter segments and reduced FLOPs.

Cloned HMMs efficiently learn variable order sequences without local minima issues.

problem Learning long-term temporal structure in sequences.
method Constrained HMMs with a sparsity structure that maps hidden states deterministically to emissions.
result Cloned HMMs can model temporal dependencies at arbitrarily long distances and recognize contexts with 'holes'.

A new model improves recurrent neural networks' ability to memorize long sequences.

problem Improving recurrent neural networks' ability to memorize long sequences and extract task-relevant features.
method Proposes a Linear Memory Network with an encoding-based memorization component and a specialized training algorithm.
result Improves the final performance of recurrent neural networks when memorizing long sequences is necessary.

Transformer model generates long musical compositions with compelling structure.

problem Creating long musical compositions with coherent structure using Transformer models.
method Modified relative attention mechanism to reduce memory complexity and enable generation of minute-long compositions.
result Transformer with modified relative attention generates minute-long compositions with compelling structure.

Learning latent representations from long text sequences is an important first step in many natural language processing applications. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have become a cornerstone for this challenging task. However, the quality of sentences during RNN-based decoding (reconstruction) decreases with the leng…

2017-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

TRM improves long-horizon LLM RL by masking divergent sequences.

problem Long-horizon reinforcement learning with LLMs suffers from off-policy mismatch and approximation errors.
method Derives and applies trust region bounds to control divergence, proposing Trust Region Masking.
result First non-vacuous monotonic improvement guarantees for long-horizon LLM-RL.

TRM improves long-horizon reinforcement learning for LLMs by masking divergent sequences.

problem Long-horizon reinforcement learning for LLMs suffers from off-policy mismatch and approximation errors.
method Derives and applies trust region bounds to control divergence, proposing Trust Region Masking.
result First non-vacuous monotonic improvement guarantees for long-horizon LLM-RL.

Several machine learning problems arising in natural language processing can be modeled as a sequence labeling problem. We provide Gaussian process models based on pseudo-likelihood approximation to perform sequence labeling. Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a Bayesian approach to learning in a kernel based framework. …

2014-12-25abs ↗pdf ↗

AverageTime uses simple averaging to enhance long-term time series forecasting.

problem Long-term time series forecasting with improved intra-sequence and cross-channel dependencies.
method Proposes AverageTime, a simple, efficient, and scalable forecasting model that reframes channel extraction as a stackable architecture.
result AverageTime surpasses state-of-the-art models in forecasting performance with near-linear complexity.

New method improves deep learning model robustness and accuracy for long sequences.

problem Challenges in learning long-range sequence tasks using state-space models.
method Proposes a perturb-then-diagonalize (PTD) methodology to address ill-posed diagonalization problems in SSMs.
result Demonstrates improved robustness and accuracy of S5-PTD model on Long-Range Arena benchmark.

In this paper we construct Cech cohomology groups that form a Gysin-type long exact sequence for principal torus bundles. This sequence is modeled on a de Rham cohomology sequence published in earlier work by Bouwknegt, Hannabuss and Mathai, which was developed to compute the global properties of T-duality in the prese…

2011-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper shows how LSTM can remember long sequences by attending to persisted information.

problem LSTMs struggle with long sequences due to fading information and bias towards recent data.
method The paper introduces a mechanism that allows LSTMs to attend to information in memory based on how long it was persisted by the gating mechanism.
result The method improves LSTM's ability to process long sequences by retrieving information proportionally to its persistence in memory.

Rough Transformers improve efficiency for medical time-series data.

problem Efficiently modeling irregularly sampled, long-range time-series data.
method Introducing Rough Transformers, a Transformer variant with continuous-time representations and multi-view signature attention.
result Rough Transformers outperform vanilla Transformers while using less computational resources.

Sumformer simplifies Transformers to handle long sequences efficiently.

problem Quadratic complexity of Transformers limits their use with long sequences.
method Introducing Sumformer, a simple architecture that universally approximates equivariant sequence-to-sequence functions.
result Sumformer achieves the first universal approximation results for Linformer and Performer.