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Is A Long Context Sequence Achievable? FOT-LAMA Unlocking The Potential Of Long Context

Revolutionary language model is here to improve context length in both single and multiple documents with the help of FOT. Its main purpose is to expand context length without compromising on performance. Extending context length beyond its limitation helps it to understand and process more information. It was first published at Google DeepMind, IDEAS NCBR, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Warsaw. Multiple researchers have put effort in this research including Szymon TworkowskiKonrad StaniszewskiMikołaj PacekYuhuai WuHenryk MichalewskiPiotr Miłoś.

FOT has achieved good results by implementing it in real-life scenarios. FOT is different from other models because it processes information in a different manner.

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Explore Challenges Of Long-Context Modeling

Previous research faced problems regarding processing longer text. They work well in some scenarios but struggle to attain long context length. Discover inaccurate results at a certain point. This response makes the system less effective. It was easy to handle context length till 2,000 tokens, but the system cannot handle tokens over this limit. This drawback causes problems in the system. When adding multiple documents, it becomes overloaded with information that starts giving irrelevant information.

Previous language models work well with short documents and hard with long pieces of documents. It was hard to process long documents and showcase the right information.

FOT overcome previous work Limitation

FOT has a significant impact on language models to optimize long context length. It can easily handle tokens above 2,000 and capture full lengthy passages to attain accurate results. Ultimately a new concept of memory attention layer was launched, allowing the model to accept tokens from large contexts.


LongLLaMA-3B
LongLLaMA-7B
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Source model OpenLLaMA-3B
Source model tokens 1T
Fine-tuning tokens 10B
Memory layers 6, 12, 18
Models

FOT addresses issues related to distraction when holding tokens from multiple sources. FOT filters tokens and provides best-suited results with accuracy. Improved its ability to capture accurate responses in multi-source documents. It can handle distraction, and extrapolating longer context. This approach incorporates cross-batch training and understanding different keys and values. FOT responds to a wide range of documents and improves its performance in multi-source documents.

The Focused Transformer Overview

Outstanding impact on the world

It has a huge impact on the real world, as its implementation makes a difference in the world. It helps in analyzing comprehensive large documents, use in information extraction, and question/answers category. Helping specialists like content creators and informational retrieval, for better results.

Enhancing the capability of chatbots, by providing more engaging and relevant response. It helps in creating more genuine summarized storytelling content with few inputs. Making itself adaptable to the environment, by fulfilling user’s needs. The advanced ability of the FOT language model makes its progress fast and secure.

OPEN LAMA different version
OPEN LAMA different version

Research Paper and Code

Its research paper is available on arxiv.org and paperswithcode.com. To view its source code jump to the Github repo. It data set is also available to people on paperswithcode.com. For better understanding, you can also run the code online on google colab, where the whole code is already present you just need to run the code and view the results. 

The researcher has added all main tasks on this webpage. To check its pytorch (python framework) format move to hugging face to explore its transformation library. Moreover, all models are present on GitHub where you can also check each model’s implementation details including FOT. The source code of training and dataset is also open to people. 

It is open source and available to the public, to seek its feedback in real-world scenarios.

Potential application

FOT applications includes:

  • Question answering
  • chatbot development
  • document summarization
  • Sentiment analysis
  • content generation
  • knowledge base construction
  • Information retrieval

Results

FOT’s outstanding ability make it irreplaceable. It has surpassed previous models bring a new change to the world by processing large amounts of data.

Context/Dataset TREC WebQS
2k 67.0 21.2
4k 71.6 21.4
6k 72.9 22.2
8k 73.3 22.4
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FOT is an extension of the traditional model while improving its performance to tackle long piece of documents. It utilizes a memory attention mechanism that helps to deal with relevant information, Mitigating the distraction issues by improving and maintaining performance to baseline models.

Its main objective is to gain accuracy across multiple datasets. This model exhibits extrapolation capabilities.

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Summary

FOT successfully extends the context length transformer, expanding its length to deal with hundreds of thousands of tokens. Without any lack and limitations, FOT handles multiple documents and provides outstanding outputs.

Conclusion

After viewing the research, I believe the FOT transformer is an effective approach. Addressing issues of length, performance, and accuracy. Allowing it to deal with complexity with any range, FOT models include language modeling, and context length exploitation to provide better results.

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References:

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