Papers with projection based transformer architecture
ProFormer: Towards On-Device LSH Projection Based Transformers (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | ProFormer is a projection based transformer architecture that is faster and lighter making it suitable to deploy to memory constraint devices such as mobile phones, watches and IoT. |
| Approach: | They propose a projection based transformer architecture that generates word representations on-the-fly without embedding lookup tables and a local projection attention layer that transforms the input sequence of N LSH word projections into a sequence of K representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed architecture reduces memory footprint from 92.16 MB to 1.7 KB and requires 16x less computation overhead making it suitable to deploy to memory constraint devices and preserve user privacy. |