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What is: Subformer?

SourceSubformer: Exploring Weight Sharing for Parameter Efficiency in Generative Transformers
Year2000
Data SourceCC BY-SA - https://paperswithcode.com

Subformer is a Transformer that combines sandwich-style parameter sharing, which overcomes naive cross-layer parameter sharing in generative models, and self-attentive embedding factorization (SAFE). In SAFE, a small self-attention layer is used to reduce embedding parameter count.