Fast Transformer
This repo implements Fastformer: Additive Attention Can Be All You Need by Wu et al. in TensorFlow. Fast Transformer is a Transformer variant based on additive attention that can handle long sequences efficiently with linear complexity. Fastformer is much more efficient than many existing Transformer models and can meanwhile achieve comparable or even better long text modeling performance.
Installation
Run the following to install:
pip install fast-transformer
Developing fast-transformer
To install fast-transformer
, along with tools you need to develop and test, run the following in your virtualenv:
git clone https://github.com/Rishit-dagli/Fast-Transformer.git
# or clone your own fork
cd fast-transformer
pip install -e .[dev]
Usage
import tensorflow as tf
from fast_transformer import FastTransformer
mask = tf.ones([1, 4096], dtype=tf.bool)
model = FastTransformer(
num_tokens = 20000,
dim = 512,
depth = 2,
max_seq_len = 4096,
absolute_pos_emb = True, # Absolute positional embeddings
mask = mask
)
x = tf.experimental.numpy.random.randint(0, 20000, (1, 4096))
logits = model(x) # (1, 4096, 20000)
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Citation
@misc{wu2021fastformer,
title = {Fastformer: Additive Attention is All You Need},
author = {Chuhan Wu and Fangzhao Wu and Tao Qi and Yongfeng Huang},
year = {2021},
eprint = {2108.09084},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
primaryClass = {cs.CL}
}
Yannic Kilcher's video was super helpful while building this.
License
Copyright 2020 Rishit Dagli
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.