CoCA: Fusing Position Embedding with Collinear Constrained Attention in Transformers for Long Context Window Extending (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing models that use self-attention and position embedding have anomalous behavior that hinder long context window extrapolation. |
| Approach: | They propose a collinear constraint between Q and K to integrate RoPE and self-attention. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model integrates self-attention and position embedding into LLMs without fine-tuning. |
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