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​​Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models

Attention has been a cornerstone of deep learning, but it comes at a steep cost: quadratic expense in sequence length. This can limit the amount of context accessible, making it challenging for subquadratic methods like low-rank and sparse approximations to achieve comparable performance. That's where Hyena comes in!

Hyena is a revolutionary subquadratic drop-in replacement for attention that combines implicitly parametrized long convolutions and data-controlled gating. And the results speak for themselves! Hyena significantly improves accuracy in recall and reasoning tasks on long sequences, matching attention-based models.

In fact, Hyena sets a new state-of-the-art for dense-attention-free architectures in language modeling, reaching Transformer quality with 20% less training compute at sequence length 2K. And that's not all! Hyena operators are twice as fast as optimized attention at sequence length 8K and 100x faster at sequence length 64K.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866
Code link: https://github.com/HazyResearch/safari
Project link: https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-07-hyena

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-hyena

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