Attention Mechanism Compression via Ternary Quantization
The transformer attention mechanism — rebuilt for three values.
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The transformer attention mechanism — rebuilt for three values.
What It IS
Technical VisionThe architectural essence — what makes this technology work
The multi-headed attention mechanism of a large language model rendered as a crown of parallel beams, each beam now carrying ternary queries, keys, and values. Where attention scores once demanded expensive matrix multiplications, compare-and-select operations produce the same focus in a fraction of the energy.
Abstract
Methods for compressing transformer attention mechanisms into ternary representation while maintaining semantic information and model expressiveness.
Visual Essence
The multi-headed attention mechanism of a large language model rendered as a crown of parallel beams, each beam now carrying ternary queries, keys, and values. Where attention scores once demanded expensive matrix multiplications, compare-and-select operations produce the same focus in a fraction of the energy.
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