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๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐๐๐ฌ โš” ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐Œ๐š๐ฆ๐›๐š-๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž "๐‰๐š๐ฆ๐›๐š"

Since the release of BERT by Google in 2019, Transformers architecture have taken over machine learning thanks to their ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐—บ, that gives them the ability to focus on important points of the input. But ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฆ๐™ช๐™–๐™™๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™˜ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฅ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ก๐™š๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ฉ๐™.

๐Ÿ’ซ The Mamba paper, published in December 2023, announced the return of the RNNs: it has no attention, but integrates a selection mechanism, which should be able to reproduce the โ€œfocusโ€ ability of attention, in an architecture for which the compute requirements ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—น๐˜† ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜๐—ต!
๐Ÿค” Would this work? We had yet to see a large Mamba model recovering the performance of Attention-based Transformers.

๐Ÿ’ฅ But now it's done! A (Mamba + Transformers) hybrid just beat Transformers!

The AI21 Labs team just released Jamba.
They insert a few Transformer layers to inject some attention in a big pile of Mamba layers, thus getting the best of both worlds.

๐™๐™‡;๐˜ฟ๐™:
๐Ÿ—๏ธ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐— ๐—ผ๐—˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ: 4 Jamba blocks, each of these being 7 Mamba layers for 1 Transformer.
๐Ÿ‹๏ธ ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿฎ๐—• ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€, ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฎ๐—• ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ: This reduction is enabled by Mixture of Experts, and similar to Mixtral (47B parameters - 13B active).
๐ŸŽ๏ธ ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ: ๐˜…๐Ÿฏ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ต๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜. Jamba is much faster than similar-sized Transformer models on long contexts.
๐Ÿ“ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜๐—ต: ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฌ๐—ž ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€ on a single 80GB A100!
๐Ÿ’ช ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ: ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ-๐—ผ๐—ณ-๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ-๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ. The small injection of attention seems sufficient since Jamba beats the open-source reference Mixtral-8x7B on many benchmarks!

Try it here ๐Ÿ‘‰ ai21labs/Jamba-v0.1
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